Hi -- I am preparing a manuscript for possible publication; it's a M. Div. thesis written by a long-departed relative. I'm researching the various self- and print-to-order publishers, and find that I may have to submit it in Word format.
My question is to those of you who have done long documents of this nature and been faced with the Microsoft syndrome. The formatting won't be that complicated, but the mss. is 350 pages and has probably 1,200 footnotes. Should I anticipate any problems in footnote placement after conversion? (I don't own a copy of Word, don't especially want to buy one, and have heard horror stories about how Word handles footnote placement in native documents, never mind converted ones.) Might I be better off making them into endnotes (I'd rather not, but I could) and/or take any other precautions? If there are problems, are there workarounds? Is there a danger in making this a master document with subdocuments and then saving them to Word format? (It's essentially three long chapters, so I may not go that route anyway.) I briefly tried the 1.x varieties of Writer and didn't fare well with it. I've heard that OOo Writer does back-and-forths with Word well, though -- better than WordPerfect, which I thoroughly love -- and thought it might be worth a try for this project. And I gotta say I'm enjoying getting under the hood with Writer 2.x on this long project. I'm not sure what's different, but the general performance seems a lot perkier, and some of the things I found frustrating about the interface have been rendered approachable and, uh, open. Great job out of everybody concerned. Eddie --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
