Book Formatting: Quality Control Checks for Designers

This presentation was made to help designers who work in publishing houses or format books for printing ensure quality.

Quality control is vital to every industry. This is why every department in a company need create a method they use in ensuring quality. This, perhaps, will not only improve the quality of products and bring errors to the barest minimum, but take it to a near perfect finish.

It is beyond a moot point that a good book will somewhat be judged by its cover, but the content of the book remains king. No matter how beautiful the cover, if the quality of writing or presentation is off, that will be a reason for readers not to come back to the book or recommend it.

So, this presentation points designers to some important things that may be missed by an editor that they could eventually discover and call the attention of the editor.

1. Quality Control
Checks For Designers
A Crash Course on How Designers Can Ensure
Quality in Book Formatting
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4. Punctuation
Here are some punctuation you
need to watch out for:
Comma
Quotation
mark
Exclamation
mark
Colon
En dash
Em dash
Full stop

5. Spacing
Some things to watch out for are:
Double spacing Eg: the boy ate the
snacks.
Spacing after punctuation marks like
quotation. Eg: ‘ The boy ate the snacks ’.
No space between words. Eg: theboy
ate the snacks
Breaking of paragraphs as a result of
too much spacing.

6. American and British spelling. Eg:
organization and organisation
Homophones. Eg: bear, bare
Homonyms. Eg: split, spilt
Double letters. Eg: vaccum
Omission of words. Eg: omission,
embezelment
Wrong arrangements of words.
Eg: childern, acknowldegement
Spelling
Things to watch out for are:

7. British and
American Style
Some things to watch out for are:
Spelling. Eg: labour and labor
Punctuation. Eg: after a colon, the
British style requires that the next word
should start with a small letter. American
style, on the other hand, requires that the
next word should start with a small letter.

8. Capitalisation should occur in the
following level:
capitalisation
In this section, you must watch
out for the following:
Grammar
Some words that should not be capitalised
no matter the level they are placed are: or,
for, to, of, and, etc.
- Heading Capitalisation
- Sub-Heading Capitalisation
- Sentence correctness. Eg: the boy
drove the bike along the bridge, but
on getting home she refused to park the
car in the garage.
- Tenses. Eg: ed, t.
- Plural and singular words

9. widows and orphans
Widow refers to a single word or
short sentence, usually at the end of
a paragraph, that appears alone at the
top of a page.
Orphan refers to a single word or short
sentence that appears at the end of a
page.
Verso is the left-hand page of an open
manuscript. It carries the even numbers
when numbering the manuscript.
Note that the main body of the manuscript
should start on the recto page.
Recto is the right-hand page of an open
manuscript. It carries the odd numbers
when numbering the manuscript.
Recto and Verso Pages

10. Book Front Matter
This term refers to what we know as preliminary pages.
The right arrangement of a book front matter is:
1
3 4
5 6
7
2
Title page Copyright page
Dedication Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Table of Content

11. Thank you