[bksvol-discuss] Re: questions about: titles, hyphens, footnotes

  • From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:09:10 -0700

Hi Charisma,

I'll try to answer all of your questions.

First, nothing on the copyright page needs to be in 16-point font as far as
I know.  If the title there is on a separate line, I do make that bold and
20-point, but this is not required.

If your title has a subtitle, I recommend putting the whole thing in bold
and 20-point font.  I'm assuming you mean something like this: (I'm making
this up, of course).
 
The Weird, The Wonderful, and the Worst
The Life of a Typical Teenager

You can use the find dialogue to find hyphens, but I think you'd still have
to look at them one at a time to be sure that they need to be where they
are.  Control+h opens the find dialogue.

And I think that yes, your handling of footnotes is accurate.

And finally, because I forgot about your chapter heading questions.  It
doesn't matter whether your first chapter is called Chapter 1 or preface.
The rule for bolding and italicizing for heading navigation is this 
Title of the book bold and 20 point
Section of the book (Part one, Part Two, etc) bold and 18 point
Chapter, acknowledgments, forword, preface, end notes, About the author, all
at 16 point and bold.
And sections within a chapter bold and at 14 point. (Not all chapters have
this).

Hope that helps.  Please ask if I've been unclear or forgotten to answer
anything.

Happy proofreading!

Mayrie
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Hi all,

I can't find these answers in the manual. If you know where they are in
there, I'd be grateful for a link. :)


What do I do about titles--both book and chapter--that are too long for one
line?

If the book title has a subtitle, does the subtitle also go in 20 point?
If the chapter title has a subtitle, does the subtitle also go in 16 point?

I am proofing a book in which the item identified as "1" (as in chapter 1,
not page 1) is a preface! What do I do about that!?  lol

I can't figure out what to put into 16 point on the copyright page--just the
line with copyright date and holder?

Has anyone found an easy way to hunt for broken (hyphenated) words besides
going line by line? I am doing a couple of authors who use double hyphens
multiple dozens of times throughout the book so searching by hyphen is
miserably slow.

And finally, I have a book with footnotes but they refer not to the bottom
of the page but to the back of the book. Do I handle those like
this:
[1]
or differently?

Thanks so much. I have hunted the manual for all of these questions and not
found the exact answers I need.

Charisma
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