Showing posts with label templates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label templates. Show all posts
09 September, 2009
17 February, 2008
Hardback Books and all of that
Do you know that the actual writing of a book at this moment in time to me looks easier than working out correct paper sizes and what template to use when you want to have your book published as a hardback book?
Why?
I hope that with a little bit more work I will have the answers that I have been looking for. So far the answers are not there yet.
As an expirment I updated and resized the manuscripts for one of my eriler books, what I thought would only take at most an hour soon got out of control and before I knew it I had spent some 3 hours on it, but I think the time has been well spent as I now have edtion 5 of the book in a hardback format at a size of 8.5*11 which is the size I want of so I think at this moment in time.
I am going to upload it to LULU and see what I get. I think that it will be a good test as I think the Dirk Maggs book will be of the same sort of size, that is about 500 odd pages, one thing with this test book that did surprise me was that the table of content runs to 30 pages! I know what? when you see the book it's easy to understand, I don't think the Dirk book will have that size of contents page, but you never know.
Now the index or indexes are another matter, and no I have not got any furthur on what to do or how many indexes I might need.
Why?
I hope that with a little bit more work I will have the answers that I have been looking for. So far the answers are not there yet.
As an expirment I updated and resized the manuscripts for one of my eriler books, what I thought would only take at most an hour soon got out of control and before I knew it I had spent some 3 hours on it, but I think the time has been well spent as I now have edtion 5 of the book in a hardback format at a size of 8.5*11 which is the size I want of so I think at this moment in time.
I am going to upload it to LULU and see what I get. I think that it will be a good test as I think the Dirk Maggs book will be of the same sort of size, that is about 500 odd pages, one thing with this test book that did surprise me was that the table of content runs to 30 pages! I know what? when you see the book it's easy to understand, I don't think the Dirk book will have that size of contents page, but you never know.
Now the index or indexes are another matter, and no I have not got any furthur on what to do or how many indexes I might need.
15 February, 2008
Dirk Maggs Book Part 9
Today I had the great idea that my Dirk Maggs book would look good as a hardback book, on the grounds that it might last longer, I know that it will cost more to have printed but I think the extra cost will pay for it's self in that it will be around longer.
The only thing is that I have yet to find any word templates that will allow me to size my work correctly so that it will go from A4 size to what ever size a standard harddback book is.
Ho hum I think is what I said...
The only thing is that I have yet to find any word templates that will allow me to size my work correctly so that it will go from A4 size to what ever size a standard harddback book is.
Ho hum I think is what I said...
12 January, 2008
Maggs Book
As you may or may not know I have a website, that is on a well known radio director called Dirk Maggs. In fact at this time it is the only website on a radio director and has been for the last 5 years!
The website has over time just got bigger, as Dirk creates new shows or I find out about old shows that he has done.
I have decided as the website is a living thing in that it only exsits as loads of electrons that I would produce a book of the website.
This I have done edition one of the the book was done last year, and had some 300 odd pages, edition two was produced late last year with no pictures in it as there are copyright problems and also cos it did not always print correctly.
So this years project is to do edition 3 of the book.
There are no plans to make the book avaiable to the public as I think I break lots of copyright rules, but there is nothing to stop me producing it for myself and maybe give a copy to Dirk.
So progress so far has been that I have found a templete for the book and have taken a copy of all of the website pages that would and do make sense to have in the printed format.
I have managed to layout the book so that each year is a chapter, then within each chapter each production from that year is then listed.
The first draft of the year 1988 has been done and it runs to 10 A4 pages!
The website has over time just got bigger, as Dirk creates new shows or I find out about old shows that he has done.
I have decided as the website is a living thing in that it only exsits as loads of electrons that I would produce a book of the website.
This I have done edition one of the the book was done last year, and had some 300 odd pages, edition two was produced late last year with no pictures in it as there are copyright problems and also cos it did not always print correctly.
So this years project is to do edition 3 of the book.
There are no plans to make the book avaiable to the public as I think I break lots of copyright rules, but there is nothing to stop me producing it for myself and maybe give a copy to Dirk.
So progress so far has been that I have found a templete for the book and have taken a copy of all of the website pages that would and do make sense to have in the printed format.
I have managed to layout the book so that each year is a chapter, then within each chapter each production from that year is then listed.
The first draft of the year 1988 has been done and it runs to 10 A4 pages!
12 November, 2006
Updates and all that
The update has happened the only bad thing about it all is that I have lost my template that I have had for sometime, and to make matter worse I don't remember where I got it from.
The good news is that all is working as it used to. The only thing that I have yet to work out is how to get the flicer picture posting thing working, as that is something I found to easy to use.
May be I will start taking here about the other internet projects that I have been doing and so on.
eg DMP the wiki on Dirk Maggs that has been going for sometime now in one form or another, last look it had over 422 pages and its not yet half done, to be honest I have rather left it alone, I have updated the wiki software to 1.82 which is good.
The good news is that all is working as it used to. The only thing that I have yet to work out is how to get the flicer picture posting thing working, as that is something I found to easy to use.
May be I will start taking here about the other internet projects that I have been doing and so on.
eg DMP the wiki on Dirk Maggs that has been going for sometime now in one form or another, last look it had over 422 pages and its not yet half done, to be honest I have rather left it alone, I have updated the wiki software to 1.82 which is good.
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