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What are some specific requirements? Aren't most formatting done by the publisher anyway?
by powersnail 6y ago
What are some specific requirements? Aren't most formatting done by the publisher anyway?
- em-bee 6y agopublishers format for print, but the submission needs to be in a specific format too. this stems from the days where manuscripts were submitted on paper, and not electronically. one could argue that with electronic submission such format requirements are no longer relevant, but we all know that people don't like change. standard manuscript format looks roughly like this: lines are double spaced first line of each paragraph is indented, but there is no space between paragraphs first page contains contact information and word count. section headers are centered each page (except the first) contains a header with: "authors lastname / story title / page #"
- powersnail 6y agoThese requirements seem to be easily within pandoc’s ability though, as it can use a reference docx file.
- em-bee 6y agoindeed, see my other reply above, linking to an article explaining exactly how that works
- jonnycomputer 6y agoNews to me, but in this case, I'm happy to be wrong.