{"id":17652,"date":"2020-10-17T22:48:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T22:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/?p=17652"},"modified":"2020-10-18T19:58:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T19:58:46","slug":"things-i-had-mercifully-forgotten-about-preparing-a-book-for-publication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2020\/10\/17\/things-i-had-mercifully-forgotten-about-preparing-a-book-for-publication\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I had mercifully forgotten about preparing a book for publication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/libra\/\">The Libra book<\/a> is probably sufficiently revised to get out to the early readers, so they can rip it to shreds! So now I have to prepare the print layout. Just having the occasional flashback to all the LibreOffice tricks I had blanked out of my memory from last time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pick a version. <\/strong>LibreOffice&#8217;s text layout has changed very slightly between versions \u2014 my 2017 layout file for <em>Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain<\/em> is no longer laid out quite correctly. This is a word processor, not a page layout program. So pick a version and stick to it \u2014 I&#8217;m doing the layout on the netbook in LibreOffice 6.4.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Putting a heading on the endnotes:<\/strong> Drop the whole book text into a section, Right click, go to Edit Section, click on Options, go to Footnotes\/Endnotes, tick &#8220;Collect at end of section.&#8221; Fiddle with page breaks and so on until the layout behaves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Indexing:<\/strong> The help pages are not clear. So this is what you do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For a single entry that doesn&#8217;t have subtopics: just put the text for the index entry in &#8220;Entry&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>For an entry that has a subtopic: put the index entry in &#8220;1st key&#8221; and the subtopic in &#8220;Entry&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>The program will helpfully autofill in fields you probably don&#8217;t want it to \u2014 always check!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The shortcut key in Word to add an index entry is Shift-Alt-X. This isn&#8217;t configured by default in LibreOffice, but it&#8217;s easy enough to configure if you can work out the dialogue box under Tools\u2192Customise.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve done your chapter headings properly (as style &#8220;Heading 1&#8221;) and want your Index listed in the Table of Contents, then right-click on your index, go to Edit Index, go to Styles, select Title on the left and Heading 1 on the right, and click the &#8220;&lt;&#8220;. Right-click on your Table of Contents to update it, and the Index should be listed correctly.<\/p>\n<p>Indexing a book is tedious as hell and takes forever. There probably isn&#8217;t a cure for this.<\/p>\n<p>At least I don&#8217;t have any <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/blockchain\/2017\/12\/29\/print-versions-make-your-line-art-pngs-non-transparent\/\">images<\/a> in this one. (Yet.)<\/p>\n<p>The book&#8217;s on track for Monday 2 November \u2014 still waiting on final artwork. Everything else is progressing well.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve sent another copy of the draft text to Libra and Novi, in a good faith effort to resolve any serious content problems before publication and not after. If you&#8217;re at Libra or Novi, please pass word to whoever monitors the press emails. 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