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Who ever said typesetting was easy?

Monday, July 13th, 2009

I am struggling with the typesetting of one of our upcoming titles. There are so many ways to layout a recipe book and deciding on the right format is a bit of a nightmare. The margins aren’t working, some recipes fit the page so neatly, others have just one line that flows on to the next page and ends up looking ridiculous. ¶
The formatting has been one huge palaver in itself and you have to be fairly consistent with this in order for the books to translate coherently into ebooks. Aaarghh! ¶
In future I will admire and respect all cookbooks or even vaguely complicated non-fiction titles. ¶
You live and learn… ¶

Lara Crisp, Managing Editor

Victoria Connelly Says:


I have a problem with cook books too – formatting the actual recipes! If anything has more than 5 ingredients then it’s usually a disaster!

Posted on July 14th, 2009 at 11:45 am

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