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This is the new phenomenon that makes the new paradigm of 21st century publishing so exciting. You can now write your book fully formatted with all the typographic tools you need to communicate clearly and effectively with your readers. You are set free from dependence upon editors and publishers who do not know your industry and have no understanding of your niche. You can speak to your readers in their own language—the language of your area of interest. This gives new power to your writing and new control to the process.
You must be set free from the limitations of word processors. You need to learn the power of excellent typography. You should learn what printers require. But that is doable. I used to teach all of these basics to my students at the community college [with no prior knowledge on their part] in only five 3-credit courses [one semester]. The likelihood is that you know now more than they did when they started.
If you are buying, you need the Adobe Creative Suite Design Premium, minimum. I know it is $1,000 software. But non-profits, faculty, and students can buy it from Adobe for well under $500, in most cases. Go to http://www.adobe.com/nonprofit and check it out. We've always gotten good service at Academicsuperstores.
You need InDesign, Photoshop, and Acrobat Professional for professional production, at the least. You will also need Dreamweaver for Web production and Kindle books. For ePUB production, you will need InDesign 7.5, which is Creative Suite 5.5.
You can buy the book at:It's also available in iBooks as an ePUB.
This book contains an extravagant amount
of additional training in the appendices
Let's talk about some simple examples
of this lack of concern for the reader
Here are some of the things
that have changed in publishing since the 1990s:
Working fully formatted
is a huge benefit of writing in InDesign
There are four basic types of fonts
Bringing it into perspective
The two basics: serif and sans serif
First, I must define a serif.
The dominance of serif
Sans serif is relatively new
Our needs are specific
The typical font family
What do you need in a font family to make it exceptional for designing books?
Readability
The basic parts of type
Other good books on typography
What fonts should you use?
Setting up your book to be read
Starting at the beginning: Document Setup…
Document size [page size]
Amazon accepts 13 standard page sizes in mid-2011:
Remember, it only costs a proof
to release another version (if that)
40% of the body copy point size in inches or:
the point size in centimeters
Guides
Master pages
Automatic page numbering
Table of Contents and Index
Sidebars
Formatting basics
Designing your paragraphs
The need for comfort
The poetry filter
Setting up a style—easily!
Another place that character styles are used
is for the table of contents
My current basic set of styles
An abbreviated suggested set for you
Body copy styles
Lists
Heads and subheads
Sidebar styles
Designing your ePUBs
Smooth type color needs to become one of your major concerns.
Spacing is to be used to help communicate,
not to make a pretty page.
Typographers
Going through the pages of the New Paragraph Style dialog box
General page
The next four pages
There is a great deal of room for experimentation
Typography should invisibly present the copy
as almost irresistibly readable.
Just remember to keep your set of styles as simple as possible! [unlike this book]
A default Object Style you really need
The goal is to develop a set of
paragraph, character, object, table, and cell styles
that are available by default in all new documents you create.
Your reader has far too much to read and will drop your writing
as soon as possible unless it is easy to read & relevant to his/her life
This is why CSS is not in my first book
@davidbergsland This is the feed for font design, typography, & on-demand publishing using InDesign
@hannaniahfellow This is the Christian feed for our ministry here in Mankato, plus commentary on the posible prophetic events happening around the world.
The whole thing (ebooks, that is) is still in its infancy. But now we have a tool that will layout pages gorgeously with superb readability control while easily converting to fit within the limitations necessary to make an ePUB. You can do it all with styles and the tips we show you.