Editorium Update

I recently needed to use line numbers in a Word document to be reviewed by an author so we could discuss editing changes over the phone without saying things like “Page 289, second full paragraph, fourth line down.” Using line numbers, we could say, “Page 289, line 23.” Much easier.

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So I typeset the book in Microsoft Word, created a PDF using Ghostscript, and sent the PDF off to press. But the press didn’t like it. “You didn’t embed your fonts,” they said. Well, I sure *thought* I’d embedded the fonts. To check, I followed this procedure:

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I can’t leave the topic of typesetting without explaining some of the things I learned on the last book I typeset–in Microsoft Word. The book had more than 400 pages and several hundred footnotes, and Word would have handled it better if I’d been more particular about the following:

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In my last newsletter I wrote, “Next week, I hope to give you a macro that will let you process a ConTeXt file directly from Microsoft Word.” I’ve changed my mind. If you need such a macro, let me know and I’ll send it to you.

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