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Are you an author, for real?

Skilled Workman Posted on May 1, 2015 by David BergslandMay 1, 2015

I just read an excellent article in CreativePro called Are you a creative professional or a hobbyist?  The article is talking about graphic designers, but it equally speaks to authors and writers. The dividing line is the tools you use Every day I see questions on FaceBook, Google+, and the author groups and forums in which I participate. They are all basically the same. How can I do this or that without bothering to learn how? It’s usually written with … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Book Production, Recent Posts | Tagged author, Book Design, book production, Google Docs, graphic tools, Office suite, page layout, professional, Word processor, word processors, writer | Leave a reply

The sadness of Word & how it’s damaging self publishing

Skilled Workman Posted on January 30, 2013 by David BergslandJanuary 30, 2013

As I have become more social online, the prevailing grief for me is listening to all the new authors whose main problem is that they are using Word. Whether it’s one of my Facebook groups like Christian Indie Authors or Indie Christian Authors, a Google+ community like Christian Authors, or the authors who tweet, the ones in Linked-In groups, or GoodReads groups, and many more, the common lament is, “How do I do this in Word?” The … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Book Production, Christian Design, ePUB, Kindle book design, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Adobe InDesign, Book Design, CS6, iBooks, InDesign, OpenOffice, Pages, professional, Scrivener, Typography, word, Word processor | 27 Replies

First-line indents and a second interior alignment

Skilled Workman Posted on July 18, 2012 by David BergslandJuly 18, 2012

First-line indents I have briefly touched on first-line indents for body copy paragraphs in talks about styles. This is the preferred method of telling the reader that a new topic sentence is being developed—a new thought expressed. I also mentioned my practice of adding a point or two after paragraphs to help the reader see that first-line indent on a busy page. I realize that this is anathema to many, but they should get a life. If … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Readability, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Typography, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Book Design, font, letter spacing, page layout, paragraph design, paragraph styles, Type color, Typography, Word processor | 1 Reply

Control your spacing & alignments with tabs & fixed spaces

Skilled Workman Posted on May 23, 2012 by David BergslandMay 23, 2012

Tabs and fixed spaces Spaces cause many other problems for people trained in typewriting. On a typewriter, the spacebar is a known quantity. This is because every character in monospaced type is the same width—even the space. This is definitely not true for type. In fact, in type, the space band is often a different size than it was the last time you hit the key. This is caused by several factors. First, the word space character … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Typography | Tagged Adobe InDesign, InDesign, Justification (typesetting), Leading, Point (typography), Space, typewriter, Word processor | Leave a reply

Margins are more important than many think: Make the margins bigger

Skilled Workman Posted on April 28, 2012 by David BergslandApril 28, 2012

Make the margins bigger | I love typography, the typography and fonts blog. The I Love Typography blog is often over the top. Even as a typographer who has focused his career on type—both font design and page layout (the two parts of typography)— this blog is always fun, often beautiful, but commonly irrelevant to my daily work. On the other hand, the item discussed in the posting this morning is critical to excellence in typography. Margins … Continue reading →

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Using styles enables global control of your book’s typography

Skilled Workman Posted on April 18, 2012 by David BergslandApril 18, 2012

Today I’m mentioning the basic structure of typography. There is one concept which enables typography as we know it in modern book publishing. This is the concept of styles. These styles are contained in styles panels. InDesign has five of them: paragraph, character, object, table, and cell. Styles are also available in word processors—even though they are not nearly so powerful there. What is a style? A style is a collection of specialized typographic defaults that can … Continue reading →

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Typography: Type has nothing to do with typing

Skilled Workman Posted on March 21, 2012 by David BergslandMarch 21, 2012
Irrelevant graphics are not helpful

It is obvious that even the terminology is different. However, we have hardly begun. Much more significant than the new language are the actual mechanics of typesetting. The rules have changed! In fact, one of the difficulties in teaching publishing classes today involves a paradox. Writing classes are secretarial. Classes all teach writing using Word: but Word cannot produce professional typography or the formatting services required by the reader. Writing groups assume Word: if you give them … Continue reading →

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Writing in InDesign gives you layout power

Skilled Workman Posted on September 2, 2011 by David BergslandSeptember 2, 2011

I’ve been working on a new expanded version of “Writing In InDesign” for my peers in ministry. (I haven’t figured out how to add the updates into the first edition.) I may write “Drawing In InDesign” first. Then I’ll do a radically expanded 2nd edition of “Writing In InDesign”—but that’s all in flux. I also received this in an email this morning: From Don in Colorado: I was up until 3:am reading Writing in InDesign. I can tell you’ve put … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Discipleship, Ministry, On-Demand Publishing | Tagged Adobe InDesign, anointed design, Christianity, Colorado, desktop publishing, Discipleship, epub, Holy Spirit, InDesign, Lord, page layout, publish, publishing, Word processor | Leave a reply

Writing in InDesign ebooks are up or coming

Skilled Workman Posted on August 26, 2011 by David BergslandAugust 26, 2011

Apple is always slow with additions to iBooks, but you can get the ePUB that will be there from Lulu or NookBooks. Amazon just let me know that the Kindle version is up. It will take a while before the print and Kindle versions are linked up. The response to the book has been very good I am really pleased that several people seem to think the basic concept has merit. You can see a discussion of … Continue reading →

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