Talk:LaTeX formatting workflow

I feel I should make "check your first few pages" more concrete, but I'm reluctant to mention "Download the entire document, compile it, and view the .PDF", which is pretty much what "check" means. The basic trouble (which has nothing to do with using emacs or Linux or OS/X) is that losing character-set info, or forcing software to guess what character-set is being used, leads to errors. Sometimes non-Latin1 characters are introduced during P1, and then COPY during F1 yields a paste buffer with incorrect character-set info, and within the text editor incorrect character-set info is used, and the PASTE operation uses incorrect character-set info, and then downloading the resulting document will not yield a .PDF with the proper appearance. But this doesn't lend itself to easy explanation / diagnosis / correction. Alas, advising proofers to use only Latin1 doesn't always work. Ensuring that the proofing interface would only let proofers click SaveAsDone for pages containing just Latin1 characters would be much simpler.