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I've been searching the forums for discussions of this, but haven't found anything. Maybe I'm using the wrong keywords. Here's my problem.
I write non-fiction books that are very heavily illustrated. I submit the ms. to my publisher in a word document. Within that document, there are notes on illustrations at the point where they should appear in the text. These generally include a illustration number (5-79 would be illustration 79 in chapter 5).
I also submit scrap photos and images for them to use as references for their artist and the photographer. The filenames for these images are the image number (e.g. 5-79.jpg).
And, I submit an Excel file with a list of all the illustrations, their numbers, descriptions, notes on photopraphy, sources, etc.
It's a real bear keeping track of all the illustrations, numbering them consecutively, renumbering and renaming if an illustration has to be added (I do add suffixes like a, b, c if necessary, but that gets confusing). I spend hours assembling and updating the illustrations list and it's still difficult to make it completely accurate.
So, here's my question. Is there writing software out there that allows you to place a note in the text where an illustration should be located, and in the note you can include the actual filename for the image, as well as a caption, and notes about the image. And, whenever you want it, the software can produce a complete illustrations list based on those notes?
I write non-fiction books that are very heavily illustrated. I submit the ms. to my publisher in a word document. Within that document, there are notes on illustrations at the point where they should appear in the text. These generally include a illustration number (5-79 would be illustration 79 in chapter 5).
I also submit scrap photos and images for them to use as references for their artist and the photographer. The filenames for these images are the image number (e.g. 5-79.jpg).
And, I submit an Excel file with a list of all the illustrations, their numbers, descriptions, notes on photopraphy, sources, etc.
It's a real bear keeping track of all the illustrations, numbering them consecutively, renumbering and renaming if an illustration has to be added (I do add suffixes like a, b, c if necessary, but that gets confusing). I spend hours assembling and updating the illustrations list and it's still difficult to make it completely accurate.
So, here's my question. Is there writing software out there that allows you to place a note in the text where an illustration should be located, and in the note you can include the actual filename for the image, as well as a caption, and notes about the image. And, whenever you want it, the software can produce a complete illustrations list based on those notes?