On Mar 4, 2005, at 6:21 AM, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
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.
Couldn't agree more. And in my field (philosophy, and especially history of philosophy) TeX is conspicuously absent. Which is bad, because I really think typesetting is the publisher's job not the author's. Having to submit pdf files, i.e camera-ready pages, is even worse than having to convert from LyX to Word and having a professional typesetter using an industrial strength SW package (i.e. Quark Xpress, inDEsign, etc.) to produce a "good typography" book. If given the choice (which often I am not given) I'd rather go for the latter option. Let the typesetters do typesetting!
S.
J�rgen
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