In Brief: In book design we have to decide which style of pagination to choose: whether to keep widows and orphans or allow the bottoms of our pages to be slightly misaligned. This article presents both so you can make an informed choice. People often seem to divide...
Most of the time, you’ll be creating PDFs from InDesign files. But that doesn’t mean you’ll never have a need to do a PDF to InDesign conversion. And while creating a PDF is simple, getting that PDF back into InDesign can prove to be a little trickier. You may be...
Do you write genre fiction? Here’s a quick definition to help: Genre fiction, also known as popular fiction, is plot-driven fictional works written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genre, in order to appeal to readers and fans already familiar...
I write today in praise of the humble indent. Not just any indent, like the kind you find at the beginning of paragraphs in a book. No, this is the opposite of a first line indent: it’s the hanging indent, which reverses the normal order. In a hanging indent the...
There are many nonfiction books that need an index to be complete. Although it seems that more books are published without indexes every year, savvy self-publishers know that including an index is one way they can make their print books stand out. A proper index...
