Word processor for writing long docs/books ...

[J C]

Depends on the book.
(I don't see a reason for a hard and fast "rule" in any of these cases.
Books with tables interspersed in the text are very common, for example)

In my experience with stuff like tables... authors don't know how to
create a table. They use the space bar instead of tabs among other
things.

Numbering the tables and then placing them at the end makes it easier
for the layout. If then the numbers are removed because that's the way
the book's style is going to be, then fine.

I've been at this a long time and every author guide I've ever seen
(except for "camera ready") tells the author to put the manuscript
info in the order described.

And here I'm basing this on having experience at several large,
multinational publishing houses that produce a wide range of
scientific, technical, and medical books and journals.

I'm not saying this is the only way to proceed, but it is the best
way.

Lastly, as an example, what is the advantage to having the author
stuff graphics inside his Word document (for a non-camera ready work)?
I can think of several disavantages, but I can't think of one
advantage.


-- JC

 

[John Doherty]

Lastly, as an example, what is the advantage to having the author
stuff graphics inside his Word document

If I could somehow convince authors to just stop doing one thing
and one thing only, that would be it.

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[Javier Bezos]

- use Framemaker for long documents, or LaTeX.
- use linked figures.
- use paragraph styles and autonumbering.

Agreed. I find the rules given in the previous post somewhat
obsolete for many jobs (while still valid for some others),
where SGML or XML and Frame or, particularly, TeX would be
much better (TeX is more powerful and with better results
but more difficult to use).

Javier
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[Tim Vanhoof]

[...] "Schmuckfarbe" (Klaus, if you have a translation for
that, dict.leo.org would like to know it ), [...]

Spot color?
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=Schmuckfarbe+spot&as_oq=color+colour

let's see how long it takes for leo to get that one online, tx!
.bob
..Word-MVP

They are not accepting submissions at the moment