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Posted by Graham Smith
Jan 12, 2007 at 05:31 PM
Cassius,
>Springer Verlag and North Holland come to mind as well as
For our book to be published by Springer in March this year, we were offered Word templates or latex templates (the latter also available as custom Lyx templates).
Graham
Posted by Franz Grieser
Jan 13, 2007 at 04:33 PM
Graham.
Thanks for the links.
>>On Open Office, and I suspect you were unlucky with it, as it has a reputation of being more stable with long documents than Word.
In fact, I was completely surprised because that had never ever happened in OpenOffice.org to me in the last few years.
>>Having said all that I find it hard to believe that InDesign cannot cope with Word files.
I did a bit of research: Indesign should be able to do what we need. I found a tutorial (in German) that tells my typographer how to proceed.
>>If you see my earlier post on Lyx, you will gather that I am blown away by how good Lyx is at making it easy to write, but then turn out documents that look as if they have been professionally typeset. And of course it will run on Linux, Mac and Windows.
I downloaded Lyx yesterday and installed it but haven’t tested it yet. It took quite to install it while because of all the components required (a funny thing is that it requires ImageMagick - last year I tried in vain to get that to run on Linux, on Windows it works).
Bye, Franz
Posted by Franz Grieser
Jan 13, 2007 at 04:36 PM
Cassius.
>>A suggestion which you must know: Try asking book publishers, particularly ones who sometimes publish authors’ works “as-is” without typesetting (i.e., in the file format the author sent). Springer Verlag and North Holland come to mind as well as some of the University Presses and small, specialty publishers such as publishers of art and photography.
The publishing houses I work or worked with use Word, Framemaker, Indesign or Latex.
Bye, Franz
Posted by Franz Grieser
Jan 13, 2007 at 04:38 PM
Stephen.
>>I work for a publisher. We do not do our own typesetting, but farm it out to pros. Most of them, it seems, are shifting to InDesign (from Quark), and I know for a fact that it can accept long Word documents. Your typesetter just doesn’t know how to use it properly. For my own, shorter projects, I still use PageMaker…
Yes, the problem is really the typesetter. Yesterday night, I talked to an editor in one of the publishing houses I worked for and he told me that Indesign works (almost) flawlessly the way we need.
Bye, Franz
Posted by Graham Smith
Jan 13, 2007 at 04:43 PM
Franz
Franz,
>I did a bit of research: Indesign
>should be able to do what we need. I found a tutorial (in German) that tells my
>typographer how to proceed.
Glad it seems this is sorted
>I downloaded Lyx yesterday and installed it but haven’t
>tested it yet. It took quite to install it while because of all the components required
>(a funny thing is that it requires ImageMagick - last year I tried in vain to get that to
>run on Linux, on Windows it works).
Yes it is a long install, but hopefully worth it. I will be interested to see how you get on with it. I am not managing to do as much with it as I would like, but so far everything has worked well.
Graham