While this is my first non-fiction book, I have written 2 this year and helped bring 15 others to market since May 2009. The purpose of the book is to provide the tools necessary to publish a book that doesn't look homemade AND do it at a reasonable price without the use of a vanity press. Both can easily be converted to other sizes with minimum effort. The templates will include pages for the front matter, interior files, and back matter as well as a template for a 5.25x8 trade size cover. I will be supplying a basic template for download to registered users of my book. I am currently finishing up a book that covers all these aspects for individuals wanting to publish their own book using their own publishing arm AND do it with OpenOffice. Typesetting, layout, images and illustrations as well as preparation of the cover art and design ARE part of the writer's job. Writer has everything you would expect from a modern, fully equipped word processor. That is the only "template" you need.Futzing around with formats and fonts and what have you is a colossal timewaster for writers.Īh, but with the growing POD aspects in the publishing industry, a writer's job can and does become much more complex than just writing the manuscript. Letting you concentrate on writing your ideas. The writer's job is to produce a manuscript, and most editors prefer a standard page with 1.5 inch margins, double spaced, with a half-inch paragraph indent in an easy to read font like Courier 12. From the drop-down menu, choose Reset Default Template > Text Document. In the box on the left, click any folder. The production process is no part of the writer's job. To reset Writer’s Default template as the default: From the main menu, choose File > Templates > Organize. They are not styled with sophisticated gradients and 3D-effects. Clipart for Teachers: 3rd Place in 2006 Template Contest - Clipart for Teachers will be quite useful to spice up school materials. They take your word count and plug it into their own formula, which varies from house to house, to come up with "their" page count. 2nd Place in 2006 Template Contest - With alpha transparency and much higher resolution they look really 'smooth' compared to the bullets used by now. In the New template field, type a name for the new template. The Templates dialog opens (see Figure 30). From the main menu, choose File Templates Save. Add the content and styles that you want. Professional editors care about word count. Open a new or existing document of the type you want to make into a template (text document, spreadsheet, drawing, presentation). This is so many kinds of wrong it's hard to know where to start. He sets up a "book" template to reproduce the effect of typesetting on his manuscript, so it doesn't seem to take as long to produce his page count. Here is an excellent tutorial for setting up a book on Open Office: Tri-fold brochure design for a technology services business. Amauriced wrote:You don't need a template necessarily.
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