Tiers 2-3: You have been using WriteRAP for structuring your content. Have your vendor ensure the styling in your content documents is correct to ensure good first pages in InDesign or Quark. Unlike keyboarded markup, you have an opportunity to see style errors visually and quickly and correct them before the compositor has to.
Tier 4: You are using WriteRAP for its structure and for a visual representation of first pages. You can take the structured content and go to first pages in InDesign, as above, but you can streamline your workflow by treating the WriteRAP file as first pages. Proofreading, editing and revisions can all be done in the MS Word environment! When the content is solid and as final as you can get in WriteRAP, you can finalize the chapter, move elements into their final position and make page breaks, or mark all of these for your vendor using comments or editorial notes.
The fewer content changes you have to make in composition, the smoother and quicker your composition passes will be. A quick proofreading pass to ensure the integrity of the content would take place, but the compositor can now focus on making good pages rather than correcting typos or sorting out a knot of marginalia on a single page. Remember that content changes in composition need to be made in the WriteRAP file as well, or logged for the next edition.
Tier 5: You are using WriteRAP and Word as the composition engine. You want to forget that Word is your composition engine as you go through the authoring-editing-proofreading-review cycle. Finalize your content in a template-driven, manuscript-like environment and then turn off Word's format protection and compose the pages when the content is final.
Because of the possibility of a slightly different representation in different versions or instances of Word, final review should be done in PDF format.
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