At least two (probably more) of the books I have in my shelf are produced entirely by a system widely used in the sciences, LaTeX, in combination with other software like RStudio, R, and a package for R called knitr. As far as I understand, page layout, headers, footers, references, everything. No tweaking afterwards. LaTeX is a beautiful tool. Steep learning curve, but with anything more than a few pages long, definitely worth the investment in the long run.
Tom On 21. May 2014, at 07:02 , Bruce Byfield <bbyfi...@axion.net> wrote: > 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 > Tom Backer Johnsen Søndre Steinkjellersmauet 7 5003 Bergen Mobil: +47 9169 3346 Email: backer(at)psych.uib.no ------------------------------------------- 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
