Hi Tim,
Please don't remove any pages. It is very likely that the long
synopsis comes from the back cover. You said that, didn't you?
Please label this page [From The Back Cover]. Many times readers like
to see this upon opening a book so that they can know what they're
going to read about, much as you might while scanning your own
personal bookshelves for a book to read, if you're like me, and you
have scads of books that you have acquired and haven't read yet, but
forgot exactly what they were about since the time they came into your
hands.
I'll give you instructions for standardizing your paragraphing format,
making all of your lines left justified. Have you standardized the
font so that all of the body is of one size and font type, and then
enlarged and bolded the appropriate headings such as title, parts, and
chapters? If you have already done the enlarging and bolding,
standardizing the font will get rid of that and I don't want to make
you go to more work. Let me know if you'd like instructions for
standardizing the font, usually done before doing anything else to a
book, and before putting in heading bolding and enlargement so as not
to have that get messed up by standardizing font after that has been done.
Oh, I'm so sorry. This is not my most intelligent e-mail ever.
Please ask questions if you have any, whenever you have them. We're
all very willing to help you however and whenever we can.
It's great to have you with us!
Here's how to make all of your document left-justified:
Standardize paragraph format (this step is for books that do not
contains tables).
Select all text with a control a (hold down the control key while
tapping the a key once)
Under your version of Word's paragraph formatting menu, set the
indents and spacing as follows:
Alignment: left or justified (either choice is acceptable)
Indentation left: zero
Indentation right: zero
First line indent: by: 0.2 (chose a number from 0.2 to 0.5. for best
results.)
Spacing before paragraphs: zero
Spacing after paragraphs: zero
Line spacing: at least 12 point
Hope that helps!
Mayrie
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*From:* bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Tim Syfert
*Sent:* Thursday, June 30, 2011 9:54 AM
*To:* bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [bksvol-discuss] Need more help, please.
Milissa,
On the first scanned page, the long synopsis from the back cover is
reproduced here (it is also at the end of the back matter). It's
followed by the short synopsis in the front matter. That is followed
by other books by the author (page iii). The title and author appear
on page iv.
Should I delete the first long synopsis? What about the two pages
before the title page? The copyright and dedication pages follow. No
ToC in this book. Also, quite a few lines and blocks of lines are
center or right justified. Will your instructions take care of those?
I do not see any manual line breaks or paragraph marks. After your
reply, I will execute your very detailed instructions (greatly
appreciated).
It is a sci-fi book: "Dark Is The Sun" by Phillip Jose Farmer; no
poetry. I love sci-fi, anybody scanning them (hint)? I also like New
Age/Metaphysical.
I hope you have a lot of patience with me.
Tim
