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Fantastic - the end result pdf looks great. Please blog about the details of the production process (scripts you wrote, problems with paper sizes or the amazon
by lifeisstillgood 7y ago
Fantastic - the end result pdf looks great.
Please blog about the details of the production process (scripts you wrote, problems with paper sizes or the amazon real paper process.) I am 30,000 words into a book and would love to hear more.
Good luck !
- bweber 7y agoSounds like there is a few requests for this, so I'll look to authoring a post on this. And also talk about motivation for going the self-publishing route. You can follow me on Medium for this update: https://medium.com/@bgweber https://medium.com/@bgweber
- lifeisstillgood 7y agothank you - look forward to it
- bweber 7y agoFor paper size, I decided to use 6x9 from the start. I also didn't consider the epub format until the end, and then used the "print replica" feature on Kindle Direct to create a kindle version, which lacks text resizing and a few other features. Once I settled on a page size, I wrote each chapter independently and made sure to avoid any widowed text or code samples. I decided that orphaned text would be fine, given that the size of the page is relatively small. I didn't really need to write any scripts, beyond using the sample bookdown project. I did use a custom book class and made some tweaks for the code formatting, but these were mostly Latex changes.