Nice! SteveT
On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 10:55:37 -0500 Les <denham...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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, -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
