Send your publisher a .docx file made by converting a .md using Pandoc: https://pandoc.org/ https://pandoc.org/ I used to work in publishing --- Word docs wer

Send your publisher a .docx file made by converting a .md using Pandoc: https://pandoc.org/ https://pandoc.org/ I used to work in publishing --- Word docs were hacked at (as noted elsethread often with track changes enabled) by editors since it was their standard tool, then they would get flowed into PageMaker, or Quark XPress, or Ventura Publisher, or Adobe InDesign --- except of course for the LaTeX docs. For .docx, the converted file is fine, so long as it has all the text and bold/italics which the author wants.