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authorJonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>2015-01-13 03:09:02 +0100
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This is a guide for reliably editing text-heavy documents.
-## Works
+## Definitions
-This guide distinguishes between the following works:
+In this guide,
+*"master text"* means an edited document with only semantic markup,
+and *"final document"* means a document with presentational markup.
-Master text
-: document with semantic markup.
+An *"author"* is the creator and owner of master texts,
-Final document
-: document with presentational markup.
+A *"designer"* is the creator and owner of presentation for master texts.
+An *"editor"* selects and prepares master texts for further processing,
+and is responsible for coherence of content and of its presentation.
-## Roles
-
-This guide distinguishes between the following roles:
-
-Author
-: Write master texts.
-
-Editor
-: Select and prepare master texts for further processing.
-
-Designer
-: Compose visual presentation from master texts.
-
-Each role is distinct.
-Participants may have multiple roles, but only one at a time.
-
-
-## Responsibility
-
-Authors are responsible for master texts they write.
-
-Designers are responsible for visual presentations they compose.
-
-Editors are responsible for coherence of content and its presentation.
+## Editing
Authors and editors may refine markup in quotations
(e.g. replace "ASCII art" styling of lists with semantic equivalent),