Max

Welcome to Max™©, the wordsnSync real-time stylesheet™© - the maximum in editorial excellence. Max will be available by subscription in 2008. To be alerted when Max is available, click here.

What is Max?
Max is the exclusive, patent-pending, real-time, online stylesheet from wordsnSync. Max:

• Is an innovative professional tool for editors
• Is an aid to in-house project managers who oversee freelance or in-house editors
• Reduces the stress of working on large, complex projects
• Ensures that today's stylesheet is available for tomorrow's next edition
• Ensures that all books in a series start from the same basic stylesheet, enhancing consistency across the entire series
• Lets publishers create a base stylesheet for editors to use as a starting point
• Lets editors create base stylesheets for particular clients

The principle behind Max is simple: Max helps you bring consistency to a project — whether the project has many authors, lots of chapters, and several editors or a single author, a single article, and a single editor, as well as any combination between.

What does Max do?
Max maximizes editing efficiency and accuracy by providing:

• A method for ensuring a consistent style across a project, whether that project be a single book or a series of books or articles
• A comprehensive stylesheet specific to your project
• The ability to catch and correct style errors early and quickly — in the prepress process, when making corrections is the least expensive
• An up-to-the-minute stylesheet for proofreaders to use — one that always has the most recent additions available and is accessible 24/7
• The same stylesheet for every editor on a project to use — one stylesheet regardless of the number of editors
• Savings of money and time
• A stylesheet that is both available and accessible when it's time for the next edition

Why Max?
Publishers who are subscribers can:

• Review entries in the stylesheet 24/7
• Immediately alert the editor(s) to a style error
• Save production time and money by having the editor make the correction, rather than having it made at the proof stage
• Coordinate style among more than one editor on a project — because Max is fast new entries show up virtually instantaneously and can be seen by all editors involved in a given project
• Give proofreaders something they have not had until Max — an up-to-the minute stylesheet
• Have greater editorial control over a project because of 24/7 access to Max
• Have a stylesheet for subsequent editions
• Create a base stylesheet that incorporates style decisions that should be applied to all of the publisher's projects for editors to use as the starting point for stylesheets for all of the those projects

Editors who are subscribers can:

• Have additions alphabetized automatically, saving time
• Maintain consistency more easily
• Copy and paste both to and from the stylesheet
• Easily correct an entry error using Max's internal editor
• Offer the client the ability to review the stylesheet 24/7 and alert the editor to any needed changes before they become a serious problem
• Retain control of the online version of the stylesheet for future editions
• Create a base stylesheet for a client that can be used as the starting point for all work done for that client, enhancing consistency across projects

Why Max + EditTools?
Max with EditTools is a winning combination. Max enables you to create a base stylesheet, and EditTools enables you to create base custom datasets. When used together in the editing process, Max with EditTools makes maintaining consistency and accuracy fast and easy.

Max — coming soon to your computer!