At 20:54 31/07/2016 -0400, Brian Meadows wrote:
On Mon, 01 Aug 2016 00:45:46 +0100, Brian Barker wrote:
Are you sure that your book publisher will want to print hearts and
diamonds symbols in red in otherwise black text in your book?
Absolutely certain. It's the third volume of three in a series which
is published via Amazon's 'print on demand' services. We send Amazon
the book as a PDF, they print a copy when somebody buys one.
I can't trace your earlier works; in any case, I imagine they don't
have red symbols or you would not be asking this question now.
Other have commented on the advisability or otherwise of printing red
symbols in an otherwise monochrome book. I've looked at a few other
bridge books on Amazon, and none of them use red symbols. One uses
grey symbols for hearts and diamonds, an interesting way to
distinguish them from the black suits without using another printing
colour. Surely readers will know that half the suits are red, won't
they? I imagine that anyone who has difficulty remembering that
hearts and diamonds are red without continual reminders in the text
is unlikely to become a proficient bridge player!
But it's your book and your choice, of course.
The reason not to leave them until the end is because some of the
alignment is quite tricky, and I don't want to screw it up by
changing the length of some of the strings when doing the final substitution.
There are good ways and bad ways to align text. Choosing a good way
should minimise such problems.
Brian Barker
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