With the backing of Westchester Book Group’s highly competent composition services, Westchester Book Services has the flexibility and technical expertise to manage projects according to established XML-based tagging systems or to provide final XML files based on our in-house generic tagging scheme.

We create the initial workflow based on whether we have been asked to edit the manuscript on paper or online. With a paper edit, XML codes are input when the book is either double keyboarded or the edits are entered onto the original disk files--depending on level of editing. With an online edit, the codes are entered by the copyeditor using Word styles and then they are translated into XML in our markup department.

The XML code can be used with either of our pagination systems (Quark or Penta). It is the basis for the creation of style tags that are used to page the print version of the book, and it is exportable after the job is completed.