One special difficulty in editing the Periphyseon is that the earliest manuscripts preserve only the first three books whereas the extant manuscripts for Books Four and Five date from the twelfth century.
Programmes such as Adobe PageMaker and Photoshop are becoming familiar as I work on a manuscript for a book of palindromes.
In the spring of 2001, Robert Slater, a business writer, was finishing his manuscript for a book on John T. Chambers and Cisco Systems, the Internet hardware maker Mr. Chambers runs.
We found among his papers a manuscript for a book on the Amber Room, which he compiled four years before his death.
In the manuscript for the book, he portrays O'Hair as a foul-mouthed, bigoted misanthropist who had amassed a fortune while pleading poverty.
Earlier this year his publishing company, HarperCollins, rejected a manuscript for a book by Chris Patten on his years as governor of Hong Kong, which it had earlier agreed to publish.
He just handed in the manuscript for a book titled "Anatomy of a Mediation," reflecting his post-retirement activities as a mediator of business disputes.
In discussing the extent of Mr. Clinton's involvement in the California contest, one associate said that his time was limited because he was nearing the due date for submitting the manuscript for his book.
When the manuscript for his book, a manual for high school teachers, was at the publisher, his editor, Lisa Barnett, who died in 2006, cut the section about the Beldy, Mr. Bennett recalled.
