On Sep 26, 2012, at 2:03 PM, Jon Hurst <jon.a@hursts.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
Quick question to Don/Roger/Anyone who PM's at DP.
Assume Greg has got us a scan that of P&P. What DP rule are we breaking by skipping P3, F1, F2 and doing a simplified PP consisting of diffing against extant text and converting to UTF-8?
I don't think there is a "rule" for this at DP. If you want to attempt it, get DP management to buy off on it first and then be very clear in the project instructions that the users' work is not going to be taken to a finished book on the DP site. I believe some users would choose not to work on a project, especially with LOTE rules, that is only doing P1 and P2. That's not the DP workflow. If you were to get that done, I understand that the P2 output is the RTT in your scheme. That means that anyone who derives a final version (HTML, epub, kf8 etc. file) from it has to find and handle all the markup like intalics and superscripts on their own. It's not coded in the RTT if it's coming out of P2, since formatting is not present in the proofing stages, even inline formatting. That is a serious shortcoming to me. --Roger