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This content is called front and back matter. A huge part of turning a manuscript into a book is adding this ‘bookend’ content that completes your book. If you know you’ll be creating a number of books over time, I suggest creating a template with the front matter preset. That way, all your books will look roughly the same and you’ll only need to update the text/information on the page. Page Layout If you scroll down a bit, you’ll find a link to our Book Creation Guide. This guide is helpful for page layout too, so I recommend downloading it, reading it, and keeping this guide on hand while you set up your page layout.
If you don’t have some experience in this area, setting up your pages is the South Africa Email List most difficult and time-consuming part of publishing. I recommend starting by deciding on the software you’ll use to create your book file. Here are some guides for specific page layout software: Affinity Publisher Adobe InDesign Microsoft Word As I mentioned above, the page layout is a huge and potentially complex part of publishing. So I encourage you to you’ll be using and to really take your time. A few things to be particularly vigilant about include: Facing pages – Odd pages are always on the right, even on the left. For most software, you can view your pages this way, but Microsoft Word notably does not show pages the way they will print.
Page numbering – How you add page numbers will be specific to your page layout software. You should carefully review the layout, as you need to be certain the numbering is accurate and not too close to the edge or text. Text size and spacing – Most text looks a little smaller and tighter on your screen compared to the page. For example, size 11 or 12 font with 1.15 line spacing usually looks great on a screen. But for a printed book, 10 point font with single-line spacing usually looks better.
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发表于 2024-2-17 13:50:22