In order to give you some idea of what BookWright will add to your word processor, here
are a few screenshots of some of the more useful commands:
Camera Ready Copy
This is a major new feature in BookWright.
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:
Insert Tag - Display Dialog box to insert a tag. (Alt+M)
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)
Previous Tag - Moves to the previous tag. (Alt+LeftArrow)
Next Tag - Moves to next tag. (Alt+RightArrow)
Tag Tools
Proper Noun List - Harvests all proper nouns in
the current document.
Load Auto Mark File - Prompts for a file to use to
insert tags.
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
Insert Index - moves to end of document and
inserts an index field.
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:
The drop down lists allow you to specify the date format.
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
The Info box displayed in the dialog box gives the theory
of this command.
Here's an example.
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:
1.
Open Left Over Agnes2.doc (this is the current version of my novel).
2.
Select Delta/Outline Headings... from the tools menu.
3.
Click the Delta File button.
4.
Select Left Over Agnes.doc (this is the first draft).
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."
6.
Click Ok.
This will result in a document named --
Left Over Agnes (delta - 12-27-03).doc
-- 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
This dialog allows you to fine tune the spacing of your manuscript.
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.
