On Friday 08 January 2010 10:18:14 Marcelo Acuña wrote: > Hello, > I have a 350000 words book
Dang dude, that's awesome. What is that, 1200 pages? > and I want to know what I win and that I lose > if I change one file to multiple files? I am thinking to make the change > due to the delays in writing the file. Do you mean delays saving the huge file, or delays in navigating through it or both. For me, anything over 110,000 words is uncharted territory. If the hugeness of your file is substantially slowing you down, my opinion is that you must break it up during the main writing process. If it were me I'd break it down to one file per part (not per chapter). That way I wouldn't have 60 files hanging around. I can tell you from personal experience that if you have a 2 year old commodity computer, navigating a 100K word book is instantaneous, saving it is maybe a second or two, and viewing it as PDF is about 30 seconds, which I find quite tolerable. So I'd think that breaking this thing into 3 or more parts would be sufficient. Personally, I'd consider putting the whole thing back together once the major writing, copy editing, spellchecking and indexing are done. I've found it easier to deal with books as a whole, and with all that work done you won't be messing with the file all that much after that. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
