On 7/24/20 11:55 AM, Les wrote: > My memoir "Blizzards and Broken Grousers -- a Year of Antarctic > Glaciology" has been accepted in its final form for publication by the > Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG). > > The form in which it has been accepted is a single 348-page PDF file > containing all of the book except the cover and a title page, ready for > printing. I requested this, because I did not want to scour proofs > someone else had typeset, taking into consideration 110 figures, a > five-page glossary, and an 18-page index. > > The PDF is generated from LyX. > > I used the Memoir class, adjusting text layout to match exactly the > specifications SEG supplied. This required quite an extensive preamble, > and some TeX within the document. The most difficult parts were getting > the chapter pagestyle exactly as requested, and getting the > bibliography format exactly as requested. > > I have a Master document and eleven Child documents. The figures > include scanned paper originals (PNG), photographs (JPEG), graphs > (Grace), and maps (PDF generated using Generic Mapping Tools). > > The editing process involved me sharing my PDF on Dropbox. The editor > marked corrections (using Adobe, I think) and I changed the LyX files > to make the corrections, and generated a new PDF. She was particularly > grateful that I could use the correct symbol (\textminus) for negative > temperatures. Apparently most authors settle for an en-dash. The last > correction made was replacing a non-standard degree symbol I had > included in a quote copied and pasted from the Australian Antarctic > Division website. > > Initial approval of the book was determined last December. I > reformatted it to the SEG specification I sent the first reformatted > PDF the first week in January, and received the first corrections in > March (with an apology for delays due to the pandemic). I have received > two more sets of corrections, and sent two more revisions, before > receiving the publication agreement for me to sign on Monday. > > I have been using LyX for about twenty years, and am extremely grateful > to the volunteers who have made it what it is today.
Congratulations! I've also produced two books in roughly this way (though minus Dropbox) and am in the process of producing a third such. It certainly is nice to have such fine-grained control over the appearance of one's own book. What font did you use? Riki -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
