This is just a summary of my progress (or lack thereof) on updating the sage tutorial on amazon. I also said I'd make a wiki page but since it is so simple, I thought I'd just sketch the instructions here.
First, you need to create a "8x10" pdf with no overfull boxes and a cover. I placed the SageTutorial.pdf and a cover (basically made by Robert Bradshaw but with some modifications) here: http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/wdj/createspace_files There is a readme.txt file there which hopefully helps some. 1. Go to createspace.com and create an account. The only possibly tricky aspect is to make sure they do not pay you but send the royalties directly to the Sage Foundation. It's been awhile but I think you have to get the 503(c) tax code from William Stein. You only have to do this once. 2. Follow the instructions on creating a book project. You have to click on a box at some point to tell createspace to sell your book on amazon (who owns createspace). The "easy" cover maker did not work for me (in linux) so I selected "advanced". In any case, the instructions are really detailed on the website. Basically you fill out some of the book details (see the readme.txt file), upload the pdfs and then submit. 3. With the files above, the createspace program rejected the updated tutorial. (It takes about a day or so to get a decision.) Although I just did some minor modifications (removing the "overfull box" on page 59) and resubmitted, I'm pretty sure it will be rejected again. I just wanted to be 100% sure that the vaguely worded rejection wasn't triggered simply by the overfull box on page 59. One error message was that the "interior" pdf was formatted for 8.5x11 and it must be 8x10. With the old latex file, I could adjust the page margins using \setlength{\paperwidth}{10in} \setlength{\paperheight}{8in} or \setlength{\topmargin}{1in} or something. With this new format, these command render the pdf file virtually unreadable. 4. I can look at this more Tuesday. Also, while writing this, Minh posted to this thread, so I will wait until he has done whatever he wants to do fisrt. However, if any one knows how to "intelligently" widen the margins of the current tutorial (thereby increasing the page count from 96 to something >96), please let me know! On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 10:37 AM, David Joyner <wdjoy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi: > > The Sage tutorial on amazon is a bit out of date. > Amazon requires the online publisher createspace, > which uses an extremely finiky automated web-based > program to process the manuscript. Any overfull > box, if memory serves, will create an immediate > rejection. There is an overfull box on page 33. > I have in the past just fiddled with the latex > file and remove any overfull boxes "by hand". > If no one objects to this twieeking, or volunteers to > update the tutorial themselves, I'll probably get > started on that this weekend. Also, I'll try to remember > to make detailed notes and post them on the wiki > for future reference. > > - David Joyner > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
