> On Jun 3, 2015, at 6:47 AM, Robert M <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Ray, > > You raise an interesting point about the type of documents you send to your > publisher. Have you come across any issues converting from Pages to Word?
No. Manuscript format hasn’t changed since Mark Twain. 1” side borders, 1 1/2 top and bottom, header on each page with author’s last name/one word from the title/page number. 12 pt courier. After the book designer takes hold, I have no idea > > I've found Pages has issues importing and exporting a Word document that > contains something as simple as an outline with a footer. Other conversion > related issues became annoying enough that I felt it was worthwhile to > splurge on MS Office and be done with it. > Never had that problem, but as I said, I’m outputting vanilla. > I still do the vast majority of my writing in a plain ol' text editor > (Tex-Edit Plus or TextEdit). Plain text works on my Mac, Windows box, iPad, > etc. Everything likes plain ol' text files. Docs that require formatting, > though, are a different matter entirely. > > Anything that requires formatting is done in MS Word. In the long run, I > found sending actual Word files to other people easier than using Pages and > converting back and forth. This assumes the recipient needs to actual edit > the file. If editing is unnecessary, I stick with PDF. > > Robert > As I said . . . Best, R.E.F.
