Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!uwvax!oddjob!hao!ames!oliveb!sun!plaid!chuq From: chuq@plaid.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop Subject: Re: Textbook on a Mac Message-ID: <18310@sun.uucp> Date: Thu, 7-May-87 14:47:01 EDT Article-I.D.: sun.18310 Posted: Thu May 7 14:47:01 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 9-May-87 05:20:34 EDT Sender: news@sun.uucp Distribution: comp Lines: 54 Approved: desktop-request%plaid@sun.com >Available hardware includes a >Mac 512e, SCSI port, and 20 meg hard disk. Software includes Word 3.0 and >SuperPaint. I have access to RSG3. Output will most likely be on a LW+, >although use of a Linotronic typesetter might be possible. >o Is this configuration adequate? It depends on what you want. If you're shipping your publisher camera ready pages, you'll need the linotronic. If you're shipping them a manuscript, the LW is more than enough. If you're just shipping a manuscript, and the publisher is doing the typesetting and layout, don't use RSG3. That's overkill, and will probably do more to confuse the typesetter and book designer than it will help. Stick to word, use a nice clean font (I like Bookman) at 10 or 12 point, and don't get fancy. If you're doing your own design and layout, you'll need RSG. But use RSG with a different document for each chapter. Superpaint, by the way is the best of the low-cost graphic programs and the only one that I think works well for the laserwriter. Avoid using the paint layer if at all possible, bitmaps simply don't look that good on the LW. If you want more power, look at Adobe's Illustrator or Cricket Draw. >o Any suggestions for design/formatting? I plan to look through a whole Again, are you doing the design or just turning in a manuscript. Make sure you and your publisher agree on this, because you can really mess up their operations if you send something out that is formatted differently than they are expecting. If they've got a book designer working on the book, write up a synopsis of your ideas seperately and talk to them about it. But do it the way the publisher wants it. >o Any other helpful hints? If this is your first book, keep it simple, and don't get fancy. You might also check with your publisher and offer to let them see the first chapter when it is done so they can approve the design and formatting. Much easier to fix things then than if you send them the entire manuscript in an unusable form. good luck! chuq ---------------------------------------- Submissions to: desktop%plaid@sun.com -OR- sun!plaid!desktop Administrivia to: desktop-request%plaid@sun.com -OR- sun!plaid@desktop-request Paths: {ihnp4,decwrl,hplabs,seismo,ucbvax}!sun Chuq Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM [I don't read flames] There is no statute of limitations on stupidity