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Gregath Company e-zine
Volume 10, Number 8
August, 2011
Helping writers, genealogists and computer users of all kinds
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Please note that while an effort to generalize much of this text has been made, some references to "we, our, etc." still occur and much of the information provided applies to Gregath Company, Inc. and may not with other printer/publishers. ALWAYS double check with your printer/publisher on every detail.
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Table of Contents
You may click on each department below to
go directly to that article. At the end of each article (if supported) is
a link back to this contents.
What's It
Mean?
Design Inspiration
Book Manufacturing Concepts
Marketing Advice
Genealogy Ideas
Computer Help
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What's It Mean? - Writer's Lingo
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*Author alterations (Marked "AA" in margins): Changes marked in proofed copy that the author will want completed/fixed. If undertaken after the work is at the printer, or at a paid typist/preparer, these would carry additional charge.
Back Matter: Material in the back of a book, after the main text - after word, reference, bibliography, index, etc.
Terms marked with an asterisk (*) are not generally used in our office.
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For other writing, printing, publishing, marketing lingo, check our glossaries
at
http://www.gregathcompany.com/gloss.html and
http://www.gregathcompany.com/glosswrite.html
Run across a word that
you don't understand? Try us -
email us your word, term or phrase and we will see if we can shed some light on
the matter!
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Design Inspiration
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Don't over clutter your cover layout - often trying to get "more bang for the buck".
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This section is drawn from
http://www.gregathcompany.com/design/cover/index.html
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Book Manufacturing Concepts
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Traditionally, any book that carries numbered pages will find this true:
With a book open to a double page spread, the page on the left (back of sheet) is even and the page to the right (front of sheet) is even. Likewise, the beginning of most elements (title, table of contents, acknowledgements, chapters/sections, index, etc.) are on the odd side - facing the reader when looking at a book with it's back resting flat.
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This section is drawn from
http://www.gregathcompany.com/publish/design/pagenumbers.html
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Marketing advice
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Keep a positive mental attitude. If you think you won't sell any books, you won't.
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Genealogy ideas
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From worldvitalrecords.com:
Using The Genealogy Blog Finder
By Whitney R. McGowan, FamilyLink.com
Blogs, blogs, blogs! It seems like everyone has a blog these days. Among this proliferation of blogs are thousands on the topic of genealogy and family history. How does one keep track of all of them? Better question...how does one sift through all of the blogs to find the genealogy blogs?
Genealogy Blog Finder is a site that helps you do just that - find blogs about genealogy. The site is sponsored by Genelaogue.com, a site by Chris Dunham who has been documenting blogs since May 2005. Chris's genealogy blog covers genealogy news, reviews, notes and humorous nonsense (which explains why the subtitle of his blog is: Genealogy News You Can't Possibly Use).
The Genealogy Blog Finder currently tracks more than 1,738 blogs. Once you arrive at the Genealogy Blog Finder you can find blogs that have been recently updated. You can see the blogs that have just been added to the directory, and you can also discover the locations from where people are blogging. And that's just the beginning of the types of searches you can perform!
Using the Genealogy Blog Finder, you can also search by genealogy news, personal research, photography, cemeteries, conferences, podcasts, famous folks, corporate, humor, community, and much more.
Another neat feature available on Genealogy Blog Finder is the ability to suggest a blog, or update a listing. If you have a genealogy blog that you think the world needs to know about, go to blogfinder.genealogue.com and add it to the site.
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Have a tip? e-mail
us
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Computer aid!?!
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If you work in Microsoft Office, learn all you can about the program you use most. Many of the same options are available in the companion programs. For instance, what works in PowerPoint for font options also works in Word the exact same way.
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Have a tip? e-mail
us
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About this e-zine
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