My memoir "Blizzards and Broken Grousers -- a Year of Antarctic Glaciology" has been accepted in its final form for publication by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG).
The form in which it has been accepted is a single 348-page PDF file containing all of the book except the cover and a title page, ready for printing. I requested this, because I did not want to scour proofs someone else had typeset, taking into consideration 110 figures, a five-page glossary, and an 18-page index. The PDF is generated from LyX. I used the Memoir class, adjusting text layout to match exactly the specifications SEG supplied. This required quite an extensive preamble, and some TeX within the document. The most difficult parts were getting the chapter pagestyle exactly as requested, and getting the bibliography format exactly as requested. I have a Master document and eleven Child documents. The figures include scanned paper originals (PNG), photographs (JPEG), graphs (Grace), and maps (PDF generated using Generic Mapping Tools). The editing process involved me sharing my PDF on Dropbox. The editor marked corrections (using Adobe, I think) and I changed the LyX files to make the corrections, and generated a new PDF. She was particularly grateful that I could use the correct symbol (\textminus) for negative temperatures. Apparently most authors settle for an en-dash. The last correction made was replacing a non-standard degree symbol I had included in a quote copied and pasted from the Australian Antarctic Division website. Initial approval of the book was determined last December. I reformatted it to the SEG specification I sent the first reformatted PDF the first week in January, and received the first corrections in March (with an apology for delays due to the pandemic). I have received two more sets of corrections, and sent two more revisions, before receiving the publication agreement for me to sign on Monday. I have been using LyX for about twenty years, and am extremely grateful to the volunteers who have made it what it is today. Thanks, -- Les Denham -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
