If you are seeking a way for a manuscript for publishing
with a correct format. Today a brief explanation is hereby Daniel Feerst. He is a respected
publisher at workexcel.com. He is telling the whole process step by step below.
Step 1: Don't "design" your manuscript
Basically, all designers use software specifically created for designing and
building books. MS Word and other word processors are great at creating manuscripts but lousy at building books.
Use BOLD and ITALICs where you need them.
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| Dan Feerst - Manuscript Design |
Create space around heads by using a single return before and after. If you
want, style the heads uniquely using the "Heading 1" "Heading
2" and "Heading 3" styles used in MS Word (these are in the menu an item that typically shows "Normal" on the Formatting menu choices.)
If you want a page to break in a specific place, insert a manual page break
- DON'T use a long list of hard returns (hitting enter multiple times). This
should be done when you want a chapter to start on a new page, or a specific
element to fall on the next page. You DON'T need to put a page break at the end
of each page - MS Word and other software will figure that out for you said by Daniel Feerst.
Never, ever, ever use changes in page margin to 'fake' a trim size so that
you can see what the book will look like in the final layout. If you need to,
change the Paper Size under Page Setup. Page margin information flows into a
layout software from MS Word - and will create much pain and consternation
later in the process for you.
Avoid getting too "designee" within the manuscript itself -
instead, help us understand what you want during our phone call, and our artistic team will build the design for your book said by Daniel Feerst.
Step 2: Your manuscript should be a single file
Don't plan on submitting a different file for each chapter. To avoid
unnecessary errors and additional costs, please send us your manuscript as a
single MS Word file. We can 'stitch' your manuscript together for you, but it
will incur a cost and may introduce unintended errors. It is best that you
combine your manuscript into a single file said by Daniel Feerst.
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| Daniel Feerst - Manuscript Publishing |
Step 3: Don't embed your art - use art references
For example, don't paste "picture01.jpg" into the manuscript, but
put a simple directive like this: [Insert picture01.jpg here]
- and our design team will find that reference and insert the art. Make sure
you use the FILENAME of the piece of art - otherwise, we can't find it.
IF YOUR IMAGE HAS A CAPTION:
According to Daniel Feerst, please
place the caption immediately below the directive to insert the image. Place
this text at the beginning of the line - [CAPTION]
For Example - your manuscript with an image and caption
would look like this:
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| Dan Feerst - Word Format |
[INSERT picture01.jpg here]
[CAPTION] The world's largest cheese wheel.
Step 4: Watch out
for extra returns.
Don't hit ENTER except at the end of paragraphs and before/after lines that
you want to be by themselves. MS word will determine the line length when we
layout your book, and will break them accordingly. Adding extra returns (by
either hitting the ENTER key or hitting SHIFT-ENTER) really wreaks havoc with
your final book design.
Step 5: Avoid "auto-formatted" fractions, "dingbats" and "wing-dings" in MS Word
Some software system cannot interpret some of the 'special characters'
from MS Word - specifically fractions and items from the 'wing-dings type' font
sets. A fraction should be represented as 1/2 (one-slash-two) - not the unique
'one-over-two' special character. To turn off AutoFormat in MS Word for
fractions, go to Tools / AutoCorrect / AutoFormat as You Type
and un-check the "Fractions" checkbox.
Step 6: Do Spell Check
Spell check, then spell check it again. It is important for a publication.
After this, you are ready for publication.
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