Topic: What would you do if, you held the secret to BIR?

[Peripatetic Phil]

Other things to consider when producing PDFs is that, unless you're wealthy enough to own a suite of Adobe professional publishing software (Acrobat Pro, In Design, etc), you're going to encounter a few compatibility issues when it comes to converting content to PDF format from other programs (MS Word, etc.). What you see is most definitely NOT what you often get!

Good advice, but there is one very inexpensive (i.e., completely free) way around this.  Install TeX Live, learn to write in TeX, and you can produce as many perfect PDFs as anyone could wish for.  The learning curve is steep -- too steep for some -- but the results can be fully professional in skilled hands.  See, for example, Amazon's "look inside" view of Prof. Rosalind Gibson's "Principles of Nutritional Assessment", or the menu for the Thai-An restaurant.

** Phil.

[Stephen Lindsay]

Well I'm not saying I hold the secret but I am one who has always wished to write a book, whether it be a novel or a work of non-fiction. The closest I've got so far was a 25 thousand word dissertation for a post-graduate degree.

I've started putting my down my own recipes using the Book Smart Blurb software. This is a proprietary software which you can then pay to have printed in hardback at a cost of

[Peripatetic Phil]

The closest I've got so far was a 25 thousand word dissertation for a post-graduate degree.

Almost as long as some of my Christmas chain-letters !
** Phil.

[Stephen Lindsay]

The closest I've got so far was a 25 thousand word dissertation for a post-graduate degree.

Almost as long as some of my Christmas chain-letters !
** Phil.

Funnily enough Phil I can sort of picture that somehow.... :

[Peripatetic Phil]

Funnily enough Phil I can sort of picture that somehow.... :

http://raynham-villas.org.uk/christmas-letters/2007/
http://raynham-villas.org.uk/christmas-letters/2009/Index.pdf
http://raynham-villas.org.uk/christmas-letters/2011/Index.pdf

** Phil.

[Stephen Lindsay]

These are superb Phil!

[Peripatetic Phil]

These are superb Phil!

"Too kind, my Lord, too kind", as Arus (Proprietor of the Taj of Kent) is fond of saying.  But you should be careful with your praise, otherwise I might feel duty-bound to add you to my Christmast list

** Phil.

[Stephen Lindsay]

Sir I would be honoured.

[h4ppy-chris]

Thank you everyone, i have loved reading all the posts.

Very intriguing indeed.Is the chef the guy who cooked the south indian garlic dish in your recent video??
If so how did you manage to persuade him to come to your house??  Well done indeed.Hopefully everything will all be revealled pretty soon,I know I can't wait!!

"how did you manage to persuade him" I didn't have too, he offered. I made the wife take the day off work to right down the recipes, also video things.

The wife is proof-reading for me ATM because i am dyslexic.

I want this book plain and simple. To me it is all about the content, not how pretty it looks.

This is the seasoned oil, it is added as a seasoning near the end of cooking your curry. (its never seen an onion bhaji, chip or fat fryer)

[Peripatetic Phil]

I want this book plain and simple. To me it is all about the content, not how pretty it looks.

It shouldn't look pretty, because it is not a coffee-table book; but it should look professional, because (a) that will help it to sell, and (b) because it will make its contents much more accessible to the reader.

** Phil.