Re: manuscript files

["J.S.Meisami" <MEISAMI@nospam.server.orient.ox.ac.uk>]

I did this a while back -- printed out the book from ms files 
(notes to each chapter at the end of the chapter), then sent 
the disk with the individual files. After all, all you're doing is 
combining a bunch of individual files into an ms file (in my 
case, I printed from several smallish ms. files, one for each 
chapter as I recall, as the chapters themselves were divided 
up into multiple files). Worked OK, however (and, thankfully, 
my publishers were able to use NotaBene).

Julie Meisami, Oxford



> Not that I am the most experienced member of the list, but I have recently
> had to do just what Marjorie has been asked to perform by her press.  In
> my case, the publisher was very firm in asking that the on-disk copies of
> my chapters be exactly the files from which the hard copy was printed. 
> They also wanted all the notes collected in one file at the end.  So I
> ended up abandoning the Manuscript File approach and printed each chapter
> from a separate file, after first extracting all the notes and replacing
> them with superscript numbers (this was easier for the publisher to deal
> with since they don't handle Nota Bene and had to convert my files to
> something else before using them to set type).  Then I sent off the entire
> manuscript along with a disk containing a separate file for each chapter,
> and one file for each chapter's worth of extracted notes.  For what it's
> worth! --Steve Ross La. State Univ.
> 
> From:"Marjorie Pryse" <mpryse@nospam.nycap.rr.com>@piper.hamline.edu on
> 09/24/2000 10:28 AM EST
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> Subject:  manuscript files
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> To the list--I've received very helpful information from this list before,
> and turn to those with more experience than I once again.
>  I am preparing a 600-page book manuscript to send to the press and am
> planning to use the "manuscript file" feature of NBW to extract the
> bibliography and to print the entire book in consecutive pagination.
>  Question: The press wants each chapter saved to its own file, while
> retaining consecutive pagination.  Is there any other way to do this than
> going into the headers of each chapter and beginning the numbering with
> whatever it turns out to be in the "manuscript file"?
>  Also: Is there anything I should particularly watch out for in this
> process?  I assume that the notes will continue to be printed at the end
> of each chapter, as I have set it up in individual files.
>  Many thanks in advance--to Mark and anyone else who might be able to
> comment. -- Marjorie Pryse