Templates

[Tigrisan]

Does anyone have or know how to make a template that is formatted for
manuscripts for authors? Not the MLA manuscript, but a regular Novel
manuscript. It would be so much easier to have the story formatted in OneNote
and saved with research docs etc.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Tigrisan in (e-mail address removed) shared
these words of wisdom:

Does anyone have or know how to make a template that is formatted
for
manuscripts for authors? Not the MLA manuscript, but a regular Novel
manuscript. It would be so much easier to have the story formatted
in
OneNote and saved with research docs etc.

Sorry, it seems that I do not understand what the question is about.
Does one need formatting and/or a special layout for writing a novel?

Even for the manuscripts of a Diploma or Master Thesis it's my
recommendation for the students to just write and not care on
formatting and layout when writing. That's a thing to be done later
when the manuscript is close to the final state.

Not to be misunderstand: It's crucial to heavily use the outline
feature in the word-processor and assign the proper level of
headlines.
But the rest can wait.
Saves huge amounts of time if one types a "raw" text and uses the flat
iron later.

And honestly speaking: I doubt that OneNote might be the proper
instrument for creating larger manuscript and even formatting them
there. A fully blown wordprocessor has a lot more to offer - and be
it alone "search + replace" which is missing in ON.

Rainald

 

[Patrick Schmid]

I am writing my PhD dissertation in Word while I am collecting research
notes, etc in OneNote. Word is much better suited for writing an actual
manuscript than OneNote.
I make use of styles in Word to be efficient in writing. All my text is
normally in Normal style, while I choose the proper Headline style
(Heading 1 through 9) for headlines. The only thing I worry about when
choosing a heading is that I get the headline level correct (meaning, a
headline that is a sub-topic of another should be one level higher).
For citations, I use EndNote (www.endnote.com). I take pains to get the
citations correctly stored in EndNote, but I don't care at all how the
citations look in Word (except adding page numbers and if needed
omitting author/year). Thanks to EndNote, I can change the actual look
of my citations and my bibliography easily just by changing the EndNote
style used.
With these features, I get a rather nicely formatted manuscript without
doing more than the absolute minimum. I also use Word 2007, which has,
in my opinion, much nicer looking default fonts/paragraph settings/etc,
so the manuscript tends to look rather "professional" without any extra
cost for me.

Patrick Schmid

 

[Tigrisan]

Because publishers require a certain format when submitting a manuscript, it
would be easier by far to be able to use the tab features of OneNote to write
the text and switch between various notes, research items, links, etc,
without having to have 5 different Word windows open. Since I don't have
EndNote, I was hoping there would be a way to devise the standard submission
format in OneNote to keep everything in a tabbed browsing atmosphere.

I know I can export to Word and put the item in the manuscript template I've
created there, but that's an extra step I really didn't want to have to take
as there are sometimes problems with exporting/importing.

Thank you so much for your responses though. I do appreciate them!

 

[Patrick Schmid]

EndNote might be available through your university library. You should
check. If not, the education version is around $100.

If you want a more tab-like feature of Word, you can simply open 5 Word
windows and switch between them using the taskbar (you can tell the
taskbar to never group those windows, so the switch is easy). Or, you
can use multiple desktops. This feature actually has existed in Windows
since NT, but you can't use it without a MS PowerToy (I have to admit
that I learnt about this only last week when reading an article about
Vista). Search Google for "MSVDM" PowerToy to find the link to download
it. Once it is installed, you have to display the "Desktop Manager"
toolbar for the taskbar.

Patrick Schmid

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Patrick Schmid in (e-mail address removed) shared these
words of wisdom:

If you want a more tab-like feature of Word, you can simply open 5
Word windows and switch between them using the taskbar (you can tell
the taskbar to never group those windows, so the switch is easy).

Wouldn't this be just what the OP does *NOT* want to see?
5 windows are 5 windows <bg> with all of the overhead of using
valuable screen space.
Couldn't it be easier to use the old MDI-design and keep the word
windows *inside* one Word window? Navigation is easy enough with the
list in the menu of "Window" in the menu bar.

But I don't think 5 windows would be needed.
AFAICS Tigrisan could do the editing in Word and keep all of the
material etc. in ON.
As to my experience it does not make too much sense to keep anything
but the text in Word. Wouldn't ON make a fine companion for Word -
especially when used on a virtual desktop suggested by you?

Rainald
Now as you mention it, I really wonder why over the years I gave up
what in the early days of Win this was a real must on each and any
machine within the district of my jurisdiction <bg>.