Finally!! The process is over and the new tutorial should be on sale at amazon within 15 days. BTW, I think Sage earns a little more of a royalty if the book is ordered directly from createspace.com, but not much.
I had to create a cover using the "easy" option, so it is a different looking book. It's a gray cover with a snow-covered mountain on it. (If anyone recognizes the mountain, please let me know.) The last steps were (a) to create cover that their program would accept (my cover using the "advanced" option and their template was rejected, though it was basically the same one as last time and I know they are the same size because I have the old one and the new one right on top of each other on my desk in front of me), (b) once the cover+interior was accepted by createspace to order a proof copy (about $10 including shipping), look it over for problems, (c) log into createspace and approve the proof. I had to re-enter the UW/Sage Foundation tax id (found on https://secure.gifts.washington.edu/as_mathematics/gift.asp?page=make&Code=MATSAG) before they let me approve the proof though. I personally think it looks really attractive, but probably because I like mountains and gray:-) On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 4:29 PM, David Joyner <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you again, I didn't notice that! > > I just finished uploading new files. We will see what the program > says this time in a day or 2.... > > > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:07 PM, John H Palmieri <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Apr 7, 5:30 pm, David Joyner <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >>> Okay, thanks. I just tried this and it didn't seem to work for me. >>> However, the length is now 104 instead of 96. The horizonal line >>> across the bottom above the page number seems to be the same distance >>> from the bottom edge of the paper. The top seems to be the same >>> distance as well. (I assume running make in the >>> .sage/doc/output/latex/en/tutorial >>> directory is the correct way to compile it.) Maybe manual.cls is >>> overriding the margin settings? >> >> Maybe it did work. Note that my suggestion actually changes the *size* >> of the paper, not the margins, so the distance from the line at the >> bottom to the edge of the paper should be about the same, for example, >> but each page should hold less. Since the document got longer, maybe >> this happened for you, too. If I view the pdf in Adobe's acroread on >> my linux box and ask for the document's properties (from the file >> menu), it tells me that the page size is 8x10. I thought that this was >> what you wanted: a document formatted for 8x10 paper. >> >> John >> >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
