On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 03:58, Lloyd White wrote: > To those who have published. > > I am preparing a long document, 200 pages, for publication and am looking > for advice about suitable fonts that will work on my iMac and print on my > Brother 1240 Laser printer.
It is my opinion that you are approaching this problem from the wrong direction - sort of like a horse behind the cart scenario. It is true that some fonts are going to meet your needs better than others. It is true that re-formatting a document with a different font after authoring is a pain in the backside. However, a smart cookie came up with a solution to this problem a while back. Without wanting to be smart about it, if you author using Styles, then the choice of font only happens as a layout issue, not an authoring issue. Thus, you create headings and chapters, keywords, index-entries, foot-notes, indents, bullet-lists, figures etc, all using a different style. Then when your document is finished, you can pick and choose fonts any which way you like and your document will display accordingly. If you've already got the document, then consider removing *all* formatting and applying styles - which is what you'd be doing with fonts if you did it the 'old' way - and then when all is done, apply the font to the style. Finally, if the document for publishing is going to be sent to a designer, or a printer, or anyone - other than direct to your Brother-Printer - you'll be grateful that you applied styles, since they can now change the look of your document with ease. You may well think that my suggestion will take you longer - that is your opinion to make - my experience tells me otherwise...
