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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Epic Meepo" data-source="post: 9520513" data-attributes="member: 57073">Just another progress report for now. I've spent much of the past week doing page layout work. I developed a rough plan for the placement of illustrations, maps, and tables before starting any other tasks on this project, but until recently, I didn’t know the final sizes of those page elements. I now have that information, so I can start placing everything and editing the text to fit around it.I have placed 108 illustrations throughout the book so far, not counting maps. (Each illustration actually makes use of two different stock art images, so I guess I’m technically placing 216 images.) I also have several dozen illustrations held in reserve in case I need spot art to fill white space or break up large blocks of text once the last few editing passes are done.Placing the illustrations and maps is the easy part. Placing the tables is trickier, but the most onerous page layout task ahead of me is an editing pass to make sure the text around the other page elements fits into the allotted space. I’ve already started that work, but there will be a fair amount of rewriting and moving stuff about before it's finished.</blockquote>