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@@ -3,41 +3,20 @@ 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), |