Archive for the ‘Typesetting’ Category
Wednesday, March 10th, 2004
In this final installment of how to set up book pages for publishing, we look at section breaks in Microsoft Word. Section breaks let you do a number of things. The most important ones for our purposes are: Share
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2004
After you've set up the pages of your book (as explained in the last newsletter), you'll need to set up headers and footers. Using Microsoft Word, you might think you'd find headers and footers under the Insert menu. Not so; they're under View. Why? Because your document *already* includes headers ...
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2004
Two weeks ago, I explained how to calculate page margins when typesetting a book in Microsoft Word. I neglected, however, to explain how to set up the pages themselves. So here goes. Share
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2004
In past newsletters, I've sometimes discussed aspects of typesetting in Microsoft Word:
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2003
If you work a lot with fonts, you'll probably be interested in Microsoft's Font Properties Extension, which will run under Windows 95 or higher (sorry, Mac users). Share
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2003
If you work much with headers and footers in Microsoft Word, you've probably noticed that when you insert a section break, it's automatically set to "Same as Previous." For many Word users, especially in the publishing world, this is an annoyance. If I'm creating a new chapter in a book, ...
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Wednesday, February 26th, 2003
A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I'd been working on a long, complex book that had to be typeset in Microsoft Word. I learned a lot from the experience, and I'll be passing on some of that hard-won knowledge in future issues. As I worked on the book, one ...
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Wednesday, February 12th, 2003
Last week's newsletter explained how to use a zero-width nonbreaking space to keep a word from breaking at the end of a line when hyphenation is turned on (Tools > Language > Hyphenation > Automatically hyphenate document). Fine as far as it goes. But what can you do to break ...
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Wednesday, February 5th, 2003
I've recently been editing a long, scholarly tome that, for reasons I'll discuss in a future newsletter, my co-workers and I decided to typeset in Microsoft Word, following the techniques explained here: Share
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Wednesday, November 20th, 2002
Ligatures, in case you didn't know, are letters that have been mashed together as one character. Why would anyone want that? For aesthetic reasons. (Yes, there is an ae ligature for words like "aesthetic.") The ligatures used most often are fi and fl, accompanied by their friends ff, ffi, and ...
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