Interior Title Page – Character style: Trajan Pro 3, 25pt Properties: Fixed line spacing, 15pt I use the following:īook Title – Character style: Trajan Pro 3, 36pt Properties: Fixed line spacing, 15ptīook Title Subheading – Character style: Trajan Pro 3, 15pt Properties: Fixed line spacing, 15ptĬopyright text Book Title Subheading – Character style: Arial, 11pt Properties: Fixed line spacing, 15pt Next you’ll want to create several new paragraph styles. Ideally you want to aim for about 59 characters a line (2.5 alphabets), but you really don’t want to go below 10pt for readability.ĭefault Paragraph – Character style: Georgia Pro, 11pt Properties: Align to baseline, Kerning -2pt. You font size will be dependant upon you line length. Though feel free to use your favourite Serif Font. Some fonts seem to run together a little in italic which makes it harder to read. I use Georgia Pro Font as it still reads clearly in Italic without the need to alter the Kerning (space between the letters). Choose the font you want to use for your book. You need to start by editing Character Style. Ideally you baseline grid should be 1.5x your font height. You can change the width of the baseline grid from the File menu. I start by turning on the Baseline Grid under the View menu of the main tool bar. The below is a screen shot for the margin layout for a 6×9 paperback. On start up you get a page set up screen. The next thing you’ll need is Scribus which is a free typesetting program, which can be downloaded here. I search on your publisher’s website should give you a guide to page layout.Īmazon’s book template’s can be found here. Of course that will vary depend on the size of the book you mean to print. No less than 2 characters after a full stop the end of a line of text,.Minimum 1 character words after full stop at the end of a line of text,.Here are a few examples from my bookcase: For example the five fantasy books I pulled off of my shelf at random all ignore the advice to avoid widows and orphans (a line of text at the end start or end of a paragraph that ends up all alone at the top of bottom of a page) and will end a line of text with a single letter word after a full stop. To start with I would recommend looking at books in a similar genre to your own writing to create your own typesetting guide.
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