William F. Adams wrote: > > For books: Big publishers (i.e. big UP presses) behave as journals: > > they want word files and will re-typeset everything. (Actually some p. > > houses will retype everything from paper...). Smaller publishing > > houses and/or imprints will want a camera-ready manuscript and assume > > you will use Word and provide instructions accordingly (i.e. "11pt for > > the body text," "skip two lines before a section heading", etc.). You > > must become good at _LaTeX_ to produce the camera-ready manuscripts > > they want. In fact, you'll probably sleep with the LaTeX companion, as > > I have been doing for the last two months... > > In short: major hassle. > > You just haven't found the right publisher yet.
Well, the right publisher is the publisher that has a good reputation in your subject. All big publishers I know (for my subject, i.e. German linguistics) want pdf files, ready for printing (because they do not want to/cannot bear the costs for a typesetter). This means that I can use LyX for writing books, which is certainly a good thing. OTOH, the stylesheets are often very much oriented on word "standards", and so I am often forced to mess up the good LaTeX layout in favour of emulated bad typography. J�rgen
