Real World QuarkXPress 7 for Macintosh and Windows

Chapter Seven. Copy Flow

As you’ve learned in preceding chapters, you can do all sorts of wonderful things to type in QuarkXPress. But there’s more to the intelligent handling of your copy than simply setting it in exquisite type: you also have to get the document produced on time.

In the development of a publication, copy is almost never static. For any number of reasons, you may have to make drastic changes in the formatting or content of the copy (usually at or beyond the last minute). Your success in meeting deadlines (and getting paid) can often depend on how carefully you’ve anticipated such changes. If you don’t plan from the very beginning to manage the flow of your publication’s copy, it will surely end up managing you, and in ways you ...