Four chapters sealed
The first four chapters of the book are sealed, and ready for printing.
Spell checking, re-reading, removing overfull \hbox (you don't know what an overfull \hbox is? You haven't lived! 
), re-reading, etc. Then there are the diagrams: move that box left a mm, un-bold that word, align the caption, highlight the arrow. A huge amount of last-moment changes and tweaks. Nothing serious mind you, but a lot of work nevertheless.
Four chapters down. Twenty to go. And eight appendices (appendixes).
nic wrote on 30-Jun-08 at 9:30 am
I see you have been struggling with the plural.
According to the Shorter Oxford, both appendices and appendixes are correct.
(An appendix is "an addition subjoined to a document or book, having some contributory value, but not essential to completeness").
You will be aware that "appendicitis" is not an irrepressible urge to add appendices (appendixes) but and inflamation of the vermiform appendix of the caecum.
Jan-Piet Mens wrote on 30-Jun-08 at 9:36 am
IIRC, appendices is English and appendixes is American. For the book I have to use some American English (largest market)…
Yes I know of appendicitis, which I've thankfully never experienced.