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Wow, that process seems great. I wrote a kids programming book for Bloomsbury and it was a nightmare. I wrote in org-mode, converted to docx and then sent off

Wow, that process seems great. I wrote a kids programming book for Bloomsbury and it was a nightmare. I wrote in org-mode, converted to docx and then sent off the copy. It was then commented on in Word, which I didn't own, so I had a weird libre-office back to org-mode workflow that was just painful. Then proofs were sent through as PDFs that inevitable messed up simple things like indentation, which I then had to fix, via comments on the PDFs. Never again.

beezlebroxxxxxx 4y ago
> I wrote in org-mode, converted to docx and then sent off the copy Did you expect them to redline it in something other than word if you sent a docx file? All traditional (fiction/non-fiction) book publishing houses will use Word redlining. It is the defacto standard in the industry. Traditional publishing has 0 interest in switching to new software as far as I know. Technical book publishers, and some university presses, will allow you a lot more leeway, but even some of those will ultimately redline on Word.