Okay, Mike, you're on. Email me the link.

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2007-06-23T08:40:00.000-04:00

Okay, Mike, you're on. Email me the link.

Maybe you're a disciple of Aaron Shepard (or have discovered all that he has discovered, and maybe you can produce book efficiently using Word.

It's also possible that the technical information you are presenting is of such high value that your audience doesn't care whether your books are beautiful or just workmanlike. And that's fine.

But send me the link and we'll see what you've got.

I've almost always found myself nodding "Yes" when...

2007-06-23T08:01:00.000-04:00

I've almost always found myself nodding "Yes" when reading your essays but this is one time I must disagree. I've been publishing books using Word for over a dozen years now.

I'll state up front that I'm not a trained typographer or book designer (or as the oft-maligned Andrew Plato would say, a font fondler).

I use Arial and Times New Roman, mostly because they're perfectly acceptable for the audience I'm addressing but also for the sake of simplicity. However, the basic concepts of book design and typography that I use in Word could be accomplished just as easily using any font choice. The tool itself is font agnostic.

I would submit that I can easily implement any book design in Word, producing output that can match that of FrameMaker, Ventura, Quark, etc. I've used these other tools as well but left to my own choice, I'll go with Word, thanks.

I'd be glad to email you a link to a PDF of my most recent effort to show you an example of what can be done with Word (I don't want to post a public link to it because I don't have authorization to do so).

Mike Starr

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