OUP will normally be amenable if saving money is in prospect! I think the
barrier here has always been the copy-editing process (now more vulnerable
since house style is not seen as so important and indeed there is no longer
any copy-editing department at OUP). A critical edition will normally
require a rather small amount of copy-editing, though there is still the
introduction and commentary to consider - but if a TeX-savvy author is
willing to implement those copy-editing changes and suggestions s/he agrees
with, there is no real difficulty. The copy-editor would then presumably
work by pen(cil) on a draft PDF printout in the traditional way (or by
annotating the PDF electronically, which can be tedious).
Or of course one can simply trust the author not to make any mistakes at
all, and forgo copy-editing. Even twenty years ago this was mentioned as a
possibility at OUP but no one dared to do it in my time there.
But I hope this doesn't become too much of a trend or I'll have to look for
something else to do! In the meantime, I must dust down my old brown OCT of
Hyperides...
John
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From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: 22 October 2010 16:36
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] (Xe)LaTeX output in a non-(Xe)LaTeX scholarly community
I'm a classicist editing Greek texts and I also recently found OUP
willing to let me set my own book with XeTeX and submit PDF to
them. It wasn't hard to convince them at all, actually, since it looks
good and saves them time and production expense. The production
process went really smoothly, all in all.
For articles and collaborative work, on the other hand, I use XeTeX
until the final phase and then generate a plain text version with
pdftotext, and use OpenOffice to manually reformat everything. It's
annoying, but I can usually fix up a doc version of an article or
chapter in an hour or two at most. It's much easier now with utf Greek
encoding.
Jud Herrman
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