Introduction
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Welcome to _Food for Thought_. This book has been produced 
as a charitable project by a group of editors via the 
Internet's copyediting discussion list. We created this 
book so that any charitable organisation can print it (at 
whatever level of quality their budget permits) and sell it 
to support their charitable activities. As editors, our 
first thought was to support literacy organisations (hence 
the book's title), but food banks, shelters for the 
homeless, and childrens' charities would certainly be 
appropriate users of the book. There are only two "strings 
attached": First, _Food for Thought_ is copyrighted, so you 
must keep the author, acknowledgments, and other 
information attached to it, but you need pay no royalties 
to me or any of the contributors. Second, if you want the 
book only for your own use, we request that you contribute 
whatever you feel the book is worth to your favorite local 
charity.

This text contains certain crucial pieces of information 
that you'll need to understand before you can print the 
book. Please read it carefully, and provide a copy to any 
printer or service bureau who will be producing the book 
for you. If you follow these instructions, you should have 
no difficulty in producing the book.

To avoid having two organisations try to sell the book 
simultaneously in the same area (thus, competing for 
sales), I request that you contact me with your name and 
address so I can determine who else is using the book in 
your area. If that happens, I'll put you in contact with 
those people to see if you can reach some cooperative 
agreement. If not, the first person to take on this project 
in your area has first rights to use the book, and I ask 
you not to compete with them. If you're reading this 
somewhere outside the English-speaking world, it would be 
great if you wanted to translate the book and use it to 
support your own language; contact me for details.

Please let me know how your efforts turn out, and provide 
any suggestions you have to improve the book for next 
year's edition. You can reach me at:

Geoff Hart
580 boul. St-Jean
Pointe-Claire, Quebec
H9R 3J9 Canada
geoff-h@mtl.feric.ca
(514) 694-1140 (work)

File information
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Depending on where you're reading this, you've either 
obtained Adobe PostScript files or Adobe Acrobat (PDF) 
files. 

Neither the PostScript file nor the Acrobat file 
is editable without considerable effort, but you should 
be able to print the files to just about any Postscript 
printer (including a filmsetter) and reproduce the book 
from that output. 

The Acrobat version _is not_ (I repeat: _not_) intended 
for online use: that's next year's project. This year, 
the Acrobat version is simply the easiest way I could find 
to distribute the file so that anyone can print it, 
even if they don't have the right fonts installed. 
(See the next section for details.)

The Acrobat PDF version has been produced using Acrobat 
Distiller 2.1, as this is the most common form available. 
The viewer for PDF files is widely available on the 
Web (www.adobe.com) and comes on the disks for most 
recent versions of Adobe software. The files should 
print to any printer, but you'll likely have the best 
luck with a Laserjet compatible or a Postscript printer.


Typeface information
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To keep the logistics of printing this book simple, I have 
used only two fonts in the entire book. The body text uses 
Adobe's Garamond (_not_ Garamond Book) typeface, with bold 
and italic styles applied using the italic and boldface 
menu choices; I did _not_ use the Garamond Bold or Garamond 
Italic fonts. If, for reasons of typographic purity, you 
choose to substitute the latter fonts, you'll have to 
ensure that this doesn't affect any line breaks (i.e., 
you'll have to reproof each page to ensure that nothing 
breaks in the wrong place). This shouldn't be a problem, 
but you never know...

The heading and chapter title text is Adobe's Gill Sans, 
with any styles again applied using the style menu. If you 
substitute Gill Sans bold or Italic, you'll have to verify 
that none of the headings break wrong. The problem that is 
most likely to arise if you switch fonts is that the start 
and end of the initial text blocks may change due to 
changes in the type size (i.e., the flow of the stories may 
be disrupted and text may flow incorrectly from one block 
to the next). Again, please try to stick with Gill Sans; if 
not, please proofread the document carefully to ensure that 
the line breaks are all correct.