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The manuscript had originally been typeset by yours truly with Adobe PageMaker in 'A4'
format. The publisher desired 'US Letter' format. Fair enough, it was to be published in
the USA. However, this meant that all the maps and charts had to be modified. Furthermore,
for those of you unfamiliar with this software, the layout and the text flow of every
single page of the manuscript had to be amended. As I had adopted the page layout of
separating paragraphs with a blank line, (subsections required extra spacing above, and at
least a full paragraph on a page), columns with at least two lines of text, and three
columns of the same length, this meant a lot of renewed playing around with the sentence
structure, changing, adding, or deleting words and paragraphs of all chapters to once
again achieve the correct desired appearance. The same applied to the comment bars and
casualty summaries. During this process, I committed quit a few errors, adding to those
already present through my previous negligence, oversight, ignorance, etc. The appearance
is fine, but the sentences sometimes lack cohesion, and the grammar limps along.
Unfortunately, I did all my own proofreading - a third party, and/or the publishers did
not. I assumed that the publisher would arrange copy editing and proofreading, but he did
not. Much to my chagrin when I received my first published, totally uncorrected copy.
