Hank–for the guy who was doing it, it was a thing of old dog, new tricks. I could have done it either way, though I must confess I totally prefer ID over Quark. And a lot of our clients want things moved over to InDesign. They're converting when they can and all new jobs are ID.

I hear 'ya Hank. A HUGE clickable area!

{EDIT: Just to check my post time versus edit time–they are off hours}

I guess I'm lucky with abbreviated style sheet names. With the book publishers we work with, it's pretty standard. For example, many of the book publishers use:

CN – chapter number

CT – chapter title

PN – part number

PT – part title

FMH – frontmatter head

HT – half title

TX -text

TXF – text flush

EXT – extract

etc. etc.

To me it's great, and since I have to mark up the manuscript (and write the stylesheets), it's much easier to write “TX” in front of the paragraph than to write “body paragraph” or “body level” or something. And luckily this naming convention has been in place for years.

As an aside–we still mark up manuscript with quark tagging as we use XTags for Quark and ID.

doc

I am now doing annual reports, as well. Someone else in the shop used to do them and it was done in Quark–and it would take him week.

I switched it over to InDesign CS4 this year, and cut the time in half by using ID’s table feature. I’m sure I can shave off more time when I tweak it more next year.

I hear 'ya Hank. A HUGE clickable area!

{EDIT: Just to check my post time versus edit time–they are off hours}

I guess I'm lucky with  abbreviated style sheet names. With the book publishers we work with, it's pretty standard. For example, many of the book publishers use:

CN – chapter number

CT – chapter title

PN – part number

PT – part title

FMH – frontmatter head

HT – half title

TX -text

TXF – text flush

EXT – extract

etc. etc.

To me it's great, and since I have to mark up the manuscript (and write the stylesheets), it's much easier to write “TX” in front of the paragraph than to write “body paragraph” or “body level” or something. And luckily this naming convention has been in place for years.

As an aside–we still mark up manuscript with quark tagging as we use XTags for Quark and ID.

doc

I am now doing annual reports, as well. Someone else in the shop used to do them and it was done in Quark–and it would take him week.

I switched it over to InDesign CS4 this year, and cut the time in half by using ID’s table feature. I’m sure I can shave off more time when I tweak it more next year.