Blueberry cover

Original Text vs Edited Text

Leading Change, etc

Leading and kerning system is totally different from oriental character system to western alphebetical system, and the author sure really liked to input some unwanted spaces and weird punctuations. The most of the time I've spent on the project so far was editing the document to be not just visually accessible, but legible to all audience.

Project so far

Being the editor and designer at the same time hasn't been too much fun for me in this particular project so far, especially, when the writer's words file consists tons full and half size signs, wrong punctunations, unnecessary spacing, different styles of hierarchy information. Originally, I expected this to be a week job, but there have been great many small detail that just couldn't be pulled off by inputting the style sheet or master page. Perhaps, it could be that I am still not truely familiar with the program, or simply, this project is too much to be one week job. Nevertheless, I have learned a lot.

Project Overview

There are seven chapters, and each chapters consist varies length of words. Since the text file from the auther is original with editiing, other than just design and create the layout for the book, editing would be part of my responsiblity as well. To be honest, it's a bit pain in the neck on that part, because I am not a very good typewritter in English, not to mention in Chinese. Yes. The book is in Chinese, and I have a bit of hard to "deciper" as the moment. Anway, the book is mixed with Chinese, English text, and pictures, charts and tables. The books is separated into these:
第一章 簡介
第二章 藍莓的品種
第三章 各大媒體之報導
第四章 藍莓第一
第五章 藍莓爲麽是現代華佗?
第六章 藍莓十大吃法
第七章 國家級實驗報告

Chapter one is simple introduction, which only contains 222 words; therefore, I will push that before the table of the content, and use this part as sort of preface or editor's note kind of page. Thus, the real chapter one should be next chapter.

There are a lot of randomness in Chapter two. Something worth while to mention is that there are great many missing pictures, which according to the author that he would put those pictures in the next edition. This section is about the type of blueberries, and so, a lot of chart and tables need to be created in order for reader to understand effortlessly. That's enough for now. I'll see how far my progress will be in next couple two or three days, and see if I can move forward to next few chapters.