Steelfinger

Hi there, I have a question that might seem unimportant, but bear with me and you might see there is some merrit to that question. Is serif planning to include some kind of page-description format / tagged text format as we have it in InDesign or QuarkXPress? The reason I am asking is, that, having worked for the publishing industry in Germany for more than a decade and typeset something between 800 and 900 books by now, I heavily depend on InDesigns tagged text export format. Depending on the publisher I have scripted a number of scripts that I use with an ordinary text-editor, to search and replace format names with GREP routines and reimport that altered tagged text into a book template. Instead of applying formats by hand which is time consuming and prone for errors, that method is pretty much fool-proof and much faster. Instead of several hours I usually get a pre-typeset book within mere seconds. Especially on scientiffic works this is of immense importance, especially if there are footnotes involved. I could not find any export format for any kind of tagged text, though, that’s why I am asking. Best wishes, Peter