Tips to become a expert in typesetting
Even when a book has really entertaining and excellent stuff to offer, presentation of the book is very critical for the reading-experience. Following are some of the proven formatting techniques and ideas used by some of the best typesetting companies.
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Importance of front matter or preliminaries
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Choose fonts that can easily be understood
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Focus on the size of type and leading
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Justification of the pages
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Indent the initial lines of your paragraphs
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Using running heads
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Use a blank line to make scene changes
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Hyphenation of the words
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Give 2'' point spacing between two lines
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A copy-right page
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Include ISBN and name of the copyright owner and publish
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Do it yourself or outsource to professional typesetting companies