IBM Lotus Symphony BETA - Free

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Oct 17, 2007 at 01:31 PM

I work for a small, nonprofit publisher. We prefer to receive manuscripts in either RTF, plain text, or Word files. We then put them into Word to go through the copy editing phase. We discourage authors from doing any formatting of their text themselves, because in most cases that all has to be stripped out anyway.

I am not sure, but I suspect, that we are pretty typical of most publishers (though perhaps not academic publishers). So I would suggest that authors not worry about the formatting abilities of the writing software they use, and just find the software that feels most comfortable and aids in the actually writing and re-writing of the work.

Steve Z.