On Mar 19, 2011, at 4:32 PM, Lawrence Sica wrote:

> 
> On Mar 19, 2011, at 6:47 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> 
>> On 2011-03-19 13:27 , Kevin Callahan wrote:
>>> I assume InDesign allows for creation of a multi-page document.
>> 
>> yeah, so much so that that's kind of a funny question ;?>
>> 
>> 
>>> Sibelius has an export option to Adobe InDesign (EPS).
>>> 
>>> So it looks like this is the way to go.
>> 
>> as i noted, EPS shouldn't be app-specific, so i don't trust this 
>> hyper-specificity of Sibelius; you also have Acrobat Pro, so you can render 
>> to PDF either from Sibelius EPS or through the print system (i'd try both, 
>> and use Acrobat's preflight tools to check the results)
>> 
>> but be careful -- InDesign is great for finished products, but if you aren't 
>> experienced with it you can make trouble for a publisher that's going to do 
>> a lot of finishing work; if your publisher is not too bare-bones to work 
>> with you, i'd suggest submitting a sample chapter before you are too deep 
>> into the project to adjust your process
> 
> Have you found out what the publisher expects?  

Yes - today he said he uses InDesign. 
When I asked about PDF vs EPS, he asked me to use PDF for graphics.
He also sent me a style sheet.

>  I'd aim any delivery or tool to be in line with that.  This is a good point, 
>  don't get too deep into formatting until you know what is expected.

yeah

>  If it were a not a music textbook I'd recommend scrivener but it really 
> sounds like you'll need a couple of tools to get the output.  

Yeah - I have anything from a few measures to multiple pages of a score. 
I will have to mix in text with other symbols and graphics - perhaps overlaying 
the score snippets etc.

Ideally, this would be a Pages multi-media document - so that they could 
actually PLAY the score or launch a video etc.

So, I'm not entirely convinced I'm going to "publish" in the standard way as 
I've done with my music scores.

If I self-publish, then I may just go with HTML5.

Any great HTML5 editors out there yet?

> Anyway double check with the publisher for submission guidelines then the 
> final tool or set of tools becomes a lot easier to figure out.  
> 
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