Attention dead tree consumers

[Dick Margulis]

For those of you who send manuals out to be printed or who print them 
in-house...

On a publishing list the other day, a self-publishing author who had 
typeset her own math text (using TeX) had gotten page proofs back from 
the printer. She asked what she should be looking for.

In response, I offered a short checklist, off the top of my head.

Kristen King, another list member, then asked if she could post an 
edited version of that checklist as a "guest article" on her blog. Well, 
long story short, I polished it up a bit (although I'm sure it's still 
incomplete), and it is now live at 
http://inkthinker.blogspot.com/2006/05/guest-article-prove-it-yourself.html.

Meanwhile, Kristen's enthusiasm for blogging persuaded me to start my 
own blog, at http://ampersandvirgule.blogspot.com/.

Comments on the article are welcome at either blog. A month from now, 
when I republish the article on my own blog, I'll incorporate any 
additions suggested in comments.

Apparently (I'm new to this blog stuff) the whole idea is to get others 
to post links to your stuff, because that's what gets blogs noticed by 
search engines. So please feel free, if you see anything of value on my 
blog, to link to it, and let me know if I can return the favor. I have 
already noticed several hits, on the Web sites I manage, coming from 
links I posted on my blog. As those clicks are all free, which is not 
the case for Google AdWords clicks, I already like blogging ;-) Now I've 
just got to find the right balance so I don't spend too much time at it.

Thanks to Kristen for lighting a fire under me to get started on this.

Dick Margulis
http://ampersandvirgule.blogspot.com/
http://www.dmargulis.com/selfpublish.asp