Real World QuarkXPress 7 for Macintosh and Windows

Chapter Nine. Long Documents

One look at the size of this book and you know why the topic of long documents is so exciting to me. But everyone has a different opinion about what a long document is. Some die-hard technical writers insist that if it isn’t over 1,000 pages, it’s not a long document. Others maintain that a document longer than five or ten pages qualifies. Personally, I think that anyone building a book, a magazine, a newspaper, a journal, or a catalog—no matter how many pages—is dealing with long documents.

Unfortunately, while there are hundreds of thousands of people creating these sorts of things with XPress, it took ten years for Quark to include even rudimentary long-document features into its flagship product. Today, XPress’s ...