Editorium Update

In our shop, when a book is ready to go to press, we create a PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file from QuarkXPress, and that’s what we send to the printer. But before sending the book off, we print it out on paper and review the pages to make sure that they’re numbered correctly, that the running heads are right, and so on. (We actually have quite a checklist.)

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In the August 4 issue of Editorium Update, I published an article on pasting tracked revisions, which works in various ways depending on whether revision tracking is turned on or off (Tools > Track Changes).

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Many of the books I work on have endnotes–notes at the back of the book–with the note numbering starting over at 1 for each chapter. To keep things clear, I like to separate the notes with headings, like this:

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Microsoft Word’s automatically numbered and bulleted lists are fraught with problems. They’re hard to understand, they’re unpredictable, and, worst of all, they don’t use real characters, which means they can’t be imported into typesetting programs like QuarkXPress, making them useless for real-world publishing.

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