Etexts prepared for the CCEL will be prepared in Microsoft Word. Then, a program will convert to ThML and from there to desired formats, such as html webs, text, and others. Although the final formatting of texts must be done in Microsoft Word, most of the work can be done in another word processor.
These are preliminary guidelines, not yet well tested. I'd be happy to have your comments or suggestions! Are parts of the guidelines unclear? Is additional markup needed for applications I haven't thought of? Great care in developing good guidelines at this point is worth the effort, considering the amount of energy that will go into preparing a thousand or so texts in this format. Drop me a note with your comments.
The following resources are available. You can look at the HTML version of documents, but for best results, you should get the RTF version and display it in Word -- the conversion to HTML is not yet perfect.