[Helpers] Book writing - notes

[Sandra Davis]

Rich - we're on completely the same page. 

Yes, Microsoft Word has the formatting & indexing capability. Yes
wizards abound. I have however made some additional points that arise
from my having personally slugged through the creation of manuals,
mini-novels, and publications in this software. 

There are refinements to be kept in mind that can impart much higher
overall quality. These refinements are built on top of the basic
formatting, indexing, and wizarding capabilities. I didn't suggest the
basic stuff because from what I read in Mystress's emails, she's very
aware of the basics, and is instead looking to take her work to that
next level.

Sandra Dee

(And any sharpness to my tone of writing voice has zip-zero to do with
you, I'm not managing to release something very well over on my end.)

--- Rich <rich at ulterium.com> wrote:
> > Indexes are an INTENSE amount of work. 
> 
> If using Word, a format can be applied to text during writing and the
> program can automatically create the index with a few simple clicks,
> based
> on all the text in that format and recognising the page number it
> came from.
> 
> 
> The format doesn't necessarily change the font or style of the text
> unless
> set to do this, and it's possible to overlay several formats so font
> changes
> and styles can be separated from what needs to be in the index.
> 
> Items can be marked in a similar fashion for the contents and index
> of
> pictures / illustrations etc. 
> 
> 
> 
> > In a .DOC? I've done it 3 ways. Very manual, slightly manual, and a
> > publishing software that breaks up areas on the page (as if it were
> a
> > publication like a magazine, newspaper, journal, etc.) The slightly
> > manual version is to set up a Macro that when used, will convert a
> > paragraph of text into a series of table columns and rows, all
> properly
> > spaced. 
> 
> I've found Word (depending on the version) has wizards to do a lot of
> these
> things. Can check help on 'convert text to table', 'insert drawing
> box',
> 'columns'. 
> 
> 
> r



		
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