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For the preparation of book manuscripts the standard styles and layout provided by BookWright should be used.

However, it is possible you will find a publisher that wants you to provide "camera ready copy," or that you would simply like to find out what the page layout would look like if you formatted your manuscript with publishing layout, fonts, and margins.

This command takes your unformatted manuscript and creates a new document with a "virtual page" of your choosing. For a trade paper back, for instance, the standard size is 5 x 7 inches of text within a 7 x 9 inch book.

Here is the dialog box that displays when you select Camera Ready Copy from the file menu:

You can optionally have the command create a new file (advisable) and add crop marks to delimit the boundaries of the book.

After creating a camera ready copy, you should run Format.ChangePunctuation to set the punctuation style to Publishing and FormatManuscript to check for any stranded "open" paragraphs at the top of the page.

Index ToolBar and Tools

For academic and scholarly books that demand index creation, this version of BookWright adds an Index Tools toolbar:

Tag Selection - Insert a tag a tag based on the selection; select current word and display dialog if selection is only IP. (Alt+Shift+M)

Tag Tools

Build List of Current Tags - Harvests all XE fields and writes a doc file. Can be edited and re-imported.

Delete Index Tags - remove all XE fields from the current document; do this only if you have already built and saved a list of current XE tags to re-import.

Index Tools

Lock Index - converts an index field into a normal text. Only do after index and document are finalized.

Journal Tools

This is a neat little addition to BookWright that makes it simple to keep a daily journal/diary/notebook. Running the command will display:

You can optionally select (none) for the time format, in which case the date stamping functions will not include the current time.

If you check "Mark the current document as a journal," then every time that document is opened, the insertion point will be moved to the end of the document, a new paragraph will be inserted and formatted as heading level 1, and the current date and time (if any) will be inserted. A new paragraph of Sub Section will be inserted and you'll be ready for your journal entry.

Clicking the Long Date button will place the date and time (if any) at the current insertion point.

The Time Only button will only be available if a time format has been selected. Clicking it will put the time at the insertion point.

Date Stamp/End of Doc, will run the same command as opening a document: move to end of document and stamp with date.

Note: if you open a doc or run the Click the End of Doc button multiple times on any given day, and you have a time format selected, then those entries after the first will be formatted as heading two and will have only the time. Easier to do than to explain.

Delta Outline/Headings

I've written the first draft of my novel is Left Over Agnes.doc. It has chapters delimited with Heading 1 and sub sections delimited with heading 2.

I am now working on the second draft, named Left Over Agnes2.doc. Let's assume I've moved a bunch of chapters around and I've moved some subsections within chapters.

I want a clear overview of what has changed between the two drafts. This is what I can now do with this command:

5. If any heading level you would like to include in the comparison is formatted as Hidden, then you should chedk "Include Hidden Outline Levels in the Comparison."

-- which will show, via Revision Marks/Tracked Changes what has been deleted or moved or added in the second draft of the manuscript.

Some Other Features in BookWright

Structure Report

The structure report gives you a snapshot view of your manuscript. You can easily see the relative length of each chapter, or section.

A related command calculates how many words were added during each session, and optionally saves the word count within the document using the Document History Command.

Settings - Layout

Settings - Headers

This command allows easy and flexible access to the headers in your document, providing a drop down list of relevant fields to insert into your header/footer.

Settings Headings

Format Manuscript

You might think that book manuscripts, unlike screenplays, do not have many formatting requirements. Unlike a screenplay, or even a play, the book manuscript uses very few paragraph elements. And there are no extra strings (like -more- and (continued)) to put into the finished product.

However, I found one frequently encountered problem. Often you will find books that mark a sub section of a chapter with left aligned text and an extra line or two of white space. When such a section break happens in the middle of a page, it is clear.

However, what happens when such a break happes across a page? When published, such a break is denoted by a character such as § to make sure the reader does not miss that the new page is actually beginning with a new section.

The format command in BookWright goes through your manuscript and marks any such "white space break" with a user-chosen marker.

Some Screen shots

New Additions in BookWright 2003

Camera Ready Copy