PDF《DIY Formatting and Layout》

Point Size Choose the font and point size for your body text. Serif fonts are more readable than serif fonts for body text. Standard point size is between

10 pt and 12pt type. Good suggestions: Garamond Palatino Times Roman Century Choose font and point size for your heads (chapter titles, section heads, etc) that complements your body text. Using the same font for both usually works well if you bold and or increase the size by

2 points or so. Alternatively, you can use a sans serif font for heads to complement serif font in body text. Good suggestions: Gill Sans Verdana Arial Front, Core and Back Matter Everything mentioned so far should be consistent throughout the document. However, there will be some formatting options that should be applied to some pages and not others. The best examples are page numbers and headers. It may be helpful to separate your book into three documents, consisting of front matter, core matter and back matter. This way the pages in your core matter will have correct page numbers and headers, while the pages in your front and back matter will be free of any unnecessary markings. When you'

re ready to create the PDF, convert each document to PDF separately, and then combine them. If you are unable to merge multiple PDFs into the final bookblock file, we'

re happy to help C just make sure that any separate documents have the same basic format structure (page size, etc). Also, be sure to send every part of the book each time you send book block files so that we know exactly what files to combine. Front matter ? anything leading up to the first page of your text (page one of your book) ? title page, copyright page, acknowledgments and dedication, foreword, preface, introduction, table of contents, and any blank pages. Core matter ? your core text, where page one of your book actually begins. Back matter ? anything after your text ends ? afterward, about the author, bibliography, index, glossary, etc. When you insert pages on your core matter document, you can start at page one or set your first page number to start on whatever number will incorporate the non-numbered pages in your front matter. Headers / Footers Decide if you want any headers or footers on your text pages C some books have the book title, chapter title or author name at the top or bottom of each page. Keep in mind that you can insert them on odd or even pages only. In MS Word, go........