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XSLT is Also Useful During Production

Transformations for Editorial QA and Proofing

• Make checklists for humans to examine
• Make files for automated authority checking
• Run galleys as often as you want
• Make useful displays that will never be printed
  • number things that won’t be numbered on display
  • if the book will say“(See Section 4.3)”
    put the section title into the reference
    “(See Section 4.3 My Life with Poodles)”
  • make false color proofs
    • ferrous materials in red and non-ferrous in green
    • all skeletal system paragraphs in blue, circulatory system paragraphs in red
    • a citation with author name in green, journal name in pink, year in blue, paper title in yellow