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Liudprand · 08-14-2023, 10:45 AM

Thanks again.

I still don't know where I can go to get a proper, soup-to-nuts education on all this. I can't understand why no one seems to have written a book that assembles it all in one place, so that you have to stalk these forums and bother people like you.

One point, though. Among other things, I'm a professional typesetter of nonfiction books. Every publisher I've worked with is still very much relying on InDesign. If I tried to submit a "typeset" book to them in Word, I don't think I'd ever hear from them again. Among many other things, Word can't handle proper kerning, wordspacing, ligatures - and much else besides. I know they're not relevant for ebooks, but they're absolutely central to professional typesetting of books.

08-14-2023, 10:45 AM	#8
Liudprand Zealot Posts: 133 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2021 Device: Kobo Libra 2	Thanks again. I still don't know where I can go to get a proper, soup-to-nuts education on all this. I can't understand why no one seems to have written a book that assembles it all in one place, so that you have to stalk these forums and bother people like you. One point, though. Among other things, I'm a professional typesetter of nonfiction books. Every publisher I've worked with is still very much relying on InDesign. If I tried to submit a "typeset" book to them in Word, I don't think I'd ever hear from them again. Among many other things, Word can't handle proper kerning, wordspacing, ligatures - and much else besides. I know they're not relevant for ebooks, but they're absolutely central to professional typesetting of books.