u/Emergency_Meeting_56

Advice for Typesetting a Textbook?

Hello! I've been tasked with typesetting a textbook. It has many footnotes, tables, special text boxes, etc. I'm looking for advice on workflow from people experienced with this type of project.

I've got my master pages, my paragraph styles, table of contents, and many other items like that down.

Now I'm entering the text into the document. I've tried using Place to place the entire Word doc, but it only worked for the first several pages, the rest were all blank, and the special text boxes and tables are, seemingly, irreparably weird.

So it seems I'm left to copy and paste individual sections from the Word doc, and then manually enter each footnote, each table, etc.

If this is how it's done, that's fine. I'm just concerned that there may be a faster way to do it, and I might be wasting time doing it this way.

Thank you in advance for any help you may have to offer!

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u/Emergency_Meeting_56 — 14 hours ago

Hello plantclinic! I hope you find this question worthy of your expertise.

I purchased this snake plant from a grocery store last June 2025. The first photo is how it looked when I brought it home. The grocery store had over-watered it, and it took a long time for the soil to dry out. I repotted it about a month after I bought it using a porous ceramic pot and cactus soil, but didn't remove the soil from around the roots very much (I don't really know what I'm doing so I get scared to mess with the roots when repotting.)

The second two photos are how the plant looks now, end of April 2026. It's in a south-facing window, and lives closer to the window than is shown in the photos (I just moved it so you could see it better.)

As you can hopefully see, the plant on the right has grown quite a bit and is putting out little leaves at the bottom. But the plant on the left hasn't changed at all and has a much duller, less vibrant appearance. Is it even alive? I'm wondering if I should remove it from the pot.

Thank you for your help! Let me know if you need any more information.

u/Emergency_Meeting_56 — 2 months ago