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While I would love to see a decent Jekyll workflow to work with books, this is not it. The output looks nice enough, but there aren't even links from the table
by jtbayly 7y ago
While I would love to see a decent Jekyll workflow to work with books, this is not it.
The output looks nice enough, but there aren't even links from the table of contents to the chapters. Neither in the HTML nor the PDF version. Nor does it say what page number to find the chapter on in the PDF.
Additionally, as mentioned in the "cons" section of the article, "Chapters are spit out as one long, single page." This includes the PDF, where there aren't even page breaks at the start of new chapters.
This is no way to publish a book. Even a simple one.
Does anybody have a Jekyll theme or workflow that actually works well with books?
- chrisanthropic 7y agoI haven't touched the code in a couple of years, but I wrote something combining Jekyll, Pandoc, and custom LaTeX templates for publishing my wife's novels (ebook and print). Someone found it and posted about it here in 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14482828 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14482828
- geraldbauer 7y agoGood points. I'm the author of the simple book theme. For more book theme alternatives see the https://github.com/bookdesigns https://github.com/bookdesigns repo that includes a jekyll copy of the "famous" (old/classic) gitbook style (see http://bookdesigns.github.io/book-git http://bookdesigns.github.io/book-git ). Another project I started a while ago is called octobook that lets you - surprise, surprise - use jekyll for (online) books, see https://github.com/octobook https://github.com/octobook and https://github.com/geraldb/talks/blob/master/octobook.md https://github.com/geraldb/talks/blob/master/octobook.md Anyways, you're right all book themes still a work-in-progress.