Typesetting

We can handle general trade books to the most complex of 1000+ page
academic textbooks. We format text and content ensuring it is accurate
and consistent, using industry standard software from Adobe, Quark and
Office. Our expert typographic knowledge, and an understanding of editorial
style, is also a natural benefit. Our turnaround times are prompt, or they are
set by you, and we are able to typeset on a regular basis:

  • Chemical, mathematical and scientific equations/formula and symbols.
  • Clean stylesheet setup and naming.
  • Decimal point alignment in numerical data.
  • Expert typographic and typeface selection advice.
  • Footnotes, endnotes, quotations.
  • Format to composition or template specification.
  • Kerning.
  • Multilingual texts (Cyrillic, Greek).
  • Prepress production (bleed, crop marks, PDF preparation: version 1.3
    X-1a:2001–1.7, preflight, setup to printer specification, colour profiles).
  • Superscripts/subscripts and fractions.
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Trade example 1

Client
Title
Book type
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Project Gutenberg.
Political and Literary Essays 1908–1913 by the Earl of Cromer.
Politics, autobiographical.
Book cover design, book design and typesetting.
Available upon request, contact.
1 column layout with quotations in English and Greek. Page
size: 160 × 225mm. Pages: 216. Paper: Think Warm, 100g/m²,
50% recycled.

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Academic/medical example 2

Client
Title
Book type
Input

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BMC.
Imaging, 5.
Medical, scientific.
Book cover design, medical/scientific textbook design and
complex academic typesetting.
Available upon request, contact.
2 column layout based on 9 × 9 grid, superiors, references,
Greek/mathematical/scientific symbols, equations, tables
and illustrations. Pages: 184. Page size: A4: 210 × 297mm.
Paper: Croxley Heritage Wove, Ivory, 120g/m², 75% recycled.

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Typesetting example 3

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Book type
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University project.
Workbook 1: Number skills.
Workbook 2: Calculator skills (with helpful calculator card).
Workbook 3: Number patterns.
Workbook 4: Shape and symmetry.
Workbook 5: Perimeter, area and volume (with practical activity sheet).
Series of 5 GCSE mathematical workbooks.
Plain/clear language rewriting/editing. Series book cover design,
educational book design, technical and freehand illustration,
typesetting and design of practical activities (paper construction
exercise and helpful calculator function card).
GCSE student: ‘It [the design] gives it a second chance’.
A teacher: ‘On the verge of brilliance’.
Available upon request, contact.
2 column layout, mathematical symbols. Page size: A5: 210 × 148.5
mm. Pages: average 30. Paper: Think Warm, 100g/m², 50% recycled.

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