On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 2:17 PM, David Joyner <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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:-) >
Maybe I'm being dumb, but it seems like you haven't provided a link anywhere in this email or in the emails quoted below to the actual book and cover that you're talking about. William > > 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 >>> >>> >> >>> >> > > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
