Talk:Basic Book Design

Merging chapter sections?
What does everyone think about merging sections of each chapter together? Each section seems too short to me right now. --hagindaz 22:12, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

PDF version vs wikimarkup version
The PDF version of this document seems to be fairly poorly typeset, which is kind of ironic for a book on book design. It also contains sections whose pages linked from the main module don't seem to exist anymore. Why is the former true, and how did the latter inconsistencies come to exist? --Drake Wilson 03:41, 1 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Concur, came here because of many errors in the PDF, was looking to attempt edits, found TOC, and... just about done looking to try to fix things.

The Chicago Manual Of Style
The text seems to constantly refer to The Chicago Manual Of Style which is worrying. Is the author around to verify that this book hasn't just been cribbed from The Chicago Manual Of Style. Is there anyway to check that there isn't a copyvio. -Axon 18:03, 17 October 2006 (UTC)


 * References to books aren't copyright violations. The wiki websites generally encourage referencing articles.--Thomas David Kehoe 18:56, 17 October 2006 (UTC)


 * That isn't what I asked: references aren't copyvio, but the content of the book bears close resemblance to the content of The Chicago Manual Of Style, both dealing with written style. How exactly did you go about writing this? Did you crib at all from the Chicago Manual of Style? If so, by how much? For example, you sentence here:
 * Question marks and exclamation marks go inside or outside quotations, depending on whether the quoted text used the punctuation mark.
 * Bears close resemblance to this sentence :
 * Question marks and exclamation marks go inside or outside quotation marks, depending on their use in the sentence.
 * Similarly, a google for your sentence "always put periods and commas inside quotation marks" returns quiet a few hits. How do you explain this? -Axon 09:37, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Change title to Book Design?
Can we change the title from Basic Book Design to Book Design? The latter fits in the style of naming other wikibooks by their subject matter only.--Thomas David Kehoe 19:04, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Heading Case
This book uses title case in its headings, in preference over sentence case, all caps, and small caps. --Dan Polansky (talk) 10:23, 9 June 2008 (UTC)