[texhax] Latex templates (and tips) for Lulu books?

[William Adams]

On Mar 28, 2007, at 12:26 AM, M. Fioretti wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I hoped that this information and material were already available
> online, but apparently this isn't the case.
>
> I am looking for a ready Latex template for a 6 x 9 Lulu book. Can
> they be downloaded from some website?

Not as such. AFAIK.

> I *am* willing to make one myself, both to learn Latex better and to
> hack things to better suit my taste, but I'd really prefer to start
> from something which already works.

Just setting the size to 6 x 9 (say using the geometry package)  
should go a long way towards that.

> If it matters, the book would be text only, with both internal cross
> references and external bibliography, but no pictures, diagrams or
> tables.
>
> Besides the template or pointers to it, any typesetting feedback and
> tip for this specific book format (which font, font size, whatever!)
> is very welcome.

My suggestion would be to use memoir or the Koma script documentclass  
--- probably the latter since you're in Europe. Memoir has excellent  
documentation (oriented towards North American conventions and  
usages), and I'm pretty sure the (non-English) docs for Koma are as  
good (and oriented towards European conventions).

I've a list of books on typography which you may find of interest:

http://members.aol.com/willadams/books-typography.html

and also a list of free texts on TeX:

http://members.aol.com/willadams/books-e-tex.html

I also did some pieces which are in my portfolio which you may find  
of interest, or perhaps also my .pdf version of Mike Brotherton's  
_Star Dragon_ which I posted the preamble for to comp.text.tex:

http://www.mikebrotherton.com/archives/002481.html

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/browse_frm/thread/ 
e343b36b4feeecb1/c0a0ef79783ada53?lnk=st&q=mike+brotherton+star+dragon 
+pdf&rnum=1#c0a0ef79783ada53

(or search your favourite usenet archive for ``mike brotherton star  
dragon pdf'')

William



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William Adams
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Fry Communications



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