Page Layout Template
April 13, 2005 – 12:00 pmIn our shop, typesetters like to see a sheet of paper showing the page layout for a book they are about to typeset. This saves them from having to guess the location and pagination the editor has in mind for an epigraph, dedication, preface, introduction, and so on. For years our editors created page layouts by hand, drawing little boxes and writing in their instructions. The drawings looked something like this:
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| | half- |
| | title |
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|_________|_________|
i
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| blank | title |
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|_________|_________|
ii iii
And so on.
But wouldn’t it be nice to create a page layout in Microsoft Word? Now you can. Just download this custom template:
http://www.editorium.com/ftp/pagelayout.zip
To use the template:
1. Put it in Word’s Templates folder. If you don’t know where that is, you can find out by clicking Tools > Options > File Locations > User Templates.
2. Click File > New.
3. In the Task Pane, click “[Templates] On my computer.”
4. Under the General tab, find and double-click Page Layout.dot to create a new document.
5. Save your new page layout with a name of your choice–something like “MyProject Page Layout.doc.”
6. Modify the page layout as needed for the book you’re working on. Each box is a bordered table, and you can freely copy and paste the boxes as needed–for back matter, for example. You can also change the contents of the boxes and the page numbers underneath. If necessary, you can modify the template itself to meet your needs.
Using a page layout should help your typesetter, but it should also help you as you plan the layout of your book. Enjoy!
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READERS WRITE
After having problems with last week’s paragraph-numbering macro, Sue Caulfield wrote, “I think Next Para needs to be on its own line.”
Sue is right, and when I sent out the newsletter, Next Para *was* on its own line. But email sometimes does funny things with carriage returns, and for some reason the one preceding Next Para got dropped in Sue’s email. If you had the same problem, just insert a carriage return in front of the command, and the macro should work as advertised.
Thanks, Sue!
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RESOURCES
Learn more about page layout at John Magnik’s Typography-1st website:
http://www.typography-1st.com/typo/layouts.shtml
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