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On 22/05/18 10:11, yamahito wrote: > I also think that more can be done to push digital capture upstream > towards the author, reducing or eliminating the extra steps between > the original thought and semantic markup. That would benefit everyone, but the curve is steep. > This depends on the quality and appropriateness of your tools, as > well as the willingness of the author/copy editor to engage with said > tools... We've just been having a discussion on the DocBook list about the choice of editing environment. Regardless of features, *authors* (especially those unacquainted with editing structured documents) will tend to select software based on how "attractive" it is (a combination of appearance, behaviour, and usability), rather than on whether it has the actual features for handling the type of document being written. More experienced authors will of course pay more attention to features and be prepared to sacrifice some appearance and even usability to get the features they need. An *editor*, on the other hand, needs a different toolset, as they are not creating text afresh (hopefully :-) and if they are experienced, as with experienced authors, they will have fairly clear ideas about what they actually need to get the job done. But in both cases there is probably always a tradeoff to be made between features and comfortableness in use (the combination of appearance, behaviour, and usability which attracts people to it) for authors and editors to engage with editing software. Right now I have the feeling that the jury is still out on a lot of this, especially for authors with no prior knowledge of XML (and no desire to learn about it). ///Peter
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