On Wednesday 21 May 2014 09:22:08 AM Urmas wrote: > "Bruce Byfield": > > Yes, manual formatting is available. But using it is kind of perverse, > because > it means doing more work than necessary > > Take any book from your shelf. > The number of lines on each page was adjusted manually. > The hyphenation and letter spacing were adjusted manually. > Paragraph spacing was adjusted manually. > The height of each footnote was adjusted manually. > Each illustration was placed manually.
Sorry -- you're waayyyy behind the times. The vast majority of books published these days use a layout program -- sometimes, even, LibreOffice -- and the publishers set it using tools like styles. I've worked with several different publishers, and I can tell you that the industry standards are fairly consistent. The only books in which everything is done manually are made by small presses, usually working with a pre-digital press. Such books tend to be expensive because they are so time-consuming to produce. Chances are, you yourself don't do manually all the things you mention when you use LibreOffice. You might tweak a hyphenation break here and there, or kern a couple of characters, but I would be very surprised to learn that you went character by character over all your documents. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7189 (on Pacific time) blog: https://brucebyfield.wordpress.com website: http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield/ ------------------------------------------- List Conduct Guidelines: http://openoffice.apache.org/list-conduct.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
