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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/4736
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
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I'm desperately looking for a book publishing solution that can handle revision control and layouts. My issues/requirements are as follows:

1. Typists are extremely non-technical and I would like to keep training to a minimum (that being said, I value revision control higher than training and will go great lengths to get RC implemented).
2. Volumes spend almost as much time being edited before they go to layout as they afterwards. Hence, I need a way that _non-technical_ people can work with a formated document without breaking the style (as per style: full, advanced text layouts - chapters, headers, footnotes, indents, etc)
3. Revision control is CRITICAL. We currently have a spaghetti mess of versions (all in word so there hard to diff) and we need to rein in on the madness.
4. While I work with svn/git from the command line all day long, most of the typists struggle with Word. While we will train as necessary, a proper cli (for me!) and as much automation as posible would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks! p.s. I asked a software question here based on [this question](https://writers.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/276/should-this-site-help-with-specific-writing-software-questions). If I'm in the wrong place, please point out where this question belongs.

Original score: 6