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Digital | Elements | Font | Header/Footer | Page Numbers | Indexing | Layout | Margins | Photos | Title

Layout your work

Basic layout formats include a single block/column and two columns of the same width for books. Generally books no larger than 8.5x11" don't have more than two columns because it is rarely economical. Depending on your content and format selections, the question of economics for one and two column may change.

Basic design elements that will be on nearly every page:

• length of page - click for ideas how to get more in less space

• margins

• header

• footer

• page numbers (usually in header or footer)

• font style(s)

• font size(s)

• photos - quality, content, and captions

Out of the ordinary ideas:

Take a page from school textbooks - consider a 2 column layout of 2 different sized columns. A large column on the inside of the page with a skinny column on the outside of the page. The skinny column could accommodate footnotes, definitions, memories, quotes, artwork/photos, pedigree, anecdotal notes, factoids/historical "trivia", and "flavor of life" things such as census, documents, newspaper items (both news and advertisements), maps, academic history, slang of the time, "on this date....", etc. This layout idea is easily accomplished in programs such as Microsoft Publisher, but a bit more advanced in word processors such as MS Word.

For wide format information - columnar transcriptions, tables, etc. You might consider making some of the pages landscape to give you more layout room.

For more suggestions on this subject and more, order our book:
G550-$20.00 WRITING Family History Or Genealogy For Pleasure and Profit Complete Edition, by Gregath Company, Inc., 2011. ISBN: 978-0-944619-00-1, 8½x11", softbound book, 132 pages, suggestions & examples of all facets of your project for the typist and/or computer user. Note: All G prefix books 100 pages or more, this one included, that are SB can be special ordered in Library Oversewn Hardbound version - contact for details. Also available on disk. | Click here for more information.

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