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This section answers typical questions most writers have regarding manuscript submission to Third Millennium Publishing.
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Note: Over the years, we have discovered the above instruction confuses more people than any other. The problem is in the concept of the end-of-paragraph marker (¶). In word processing, every time you hit the ENTER or RETURN key, the computer inserts an invisible code into the stream of text that says, "The Master wants us to end the line right here, no matter what!" This invisible code is absolutely appropriate at the end of a paragraph because you don't want the computer pushing two paragraphs together and making one. However, if you hit ENTER or RETURN at the end of every line in the same way that you hit the CARRIAGE RETURN key on a typewriter, you tell the computer that you want every line to end at that point in the text.This is fine if you never change anything, such as the size of the font or the size of the paper on which the words will be printed. However, one of the reasons we use computers to write our books nowadays is because they handle all of this formatting stuff automatically. If the number of words that fit on a line changes during production of your book, the computer will automatically wrap the line at the proper place and move the excess words down to the next line, as well as move everything around to fit nicely on the page. That is, it will do so unless you have an invisible end-of-paragraph marker at the end of each line. In that case, you utterly assassinate the computer's ability to reformat your file on the fly and we have no way of knowing where one paragraph ends and the next begins. Basically, it all turns into a big mess.Therefore, we would like your manuscript in the form in which you hit ENTER or RETURN once (and only once) per paragraph. That is when you reach the paragraph end. If you would like to check what shape your word processing file is in, virtually all programs have a command that turns on the invisible formatting characters so that you can see them. Microsoft Word uses a toolbar button that not coincidentally has a ¶ symbol on it. You can also go to the menu and select VIEW, REVEAL TAGS.If you have written a book and can get it into electronic format, we can format it and get it online for you. If it is in paper, we can convert it for you if you like. Once we have done so, it will be available to readers all over the planet, and isn't that the point of the exercise? So, don't let the technical aspects of electronic publishing intimidate you. There is no need for you to be an expert in such things. That's our job!
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