Much of my work this week has been blending with new workflows in two ways.

(i) Less mechanical editing: because of the introduction of automated processing of reference/citation formatting and other mechanical tasks, my primary focus for one client has become checking language.

(ii) Using document management systems: a month ago, all of my work was sent and received by email. By this time next month, I'll be down- and uploading files with two systems.

Taken together, these are right for the times. It helps me to maintain clients' standards even while journal paper submissions are increasing and managing costs is a priority.

Another first this week was a journal client asking me to use XML entity codes for special characters (e.g. &#62; and &#60 for > and <).