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Anyone got a similar resource for self publishing ebooks? I had some stuff hacked together with org-mode and some other bits a while ago, but would like to know

• ivan_ah 11y ago
  You can look into softcover/polytexnic here: https://github.com/softcover/softcover https://github.com/softcover/softcover , I believe it had a decent .tex style for a book. Also very powerful pipeline for producing .epub/.mobi from .tex Another excellent style sheet to look into is the Tufre-style book: http://www.latextemplates.com/template/tufte-style-book http://www.latextemplates.com/template/tufte-style-book I'd also be happy to share some of the .tex header I use for my book---just some customizations on the vanilla book documentclass. It's fairly hacky stuff, but it works ;)
  • boothead 11y ago
    Softcover looks awesome. Thanks!
• akeck 11y ago
  It's not LaTeX, but a historian recently posted on HN his work flow for using plaintext and Pandoc for writing papers [1]. I've been using markdown+pandoc [2] for a book of stories for my family. TeX/LateX exerts nearly absolute (albeit, gorgeous) control over layout, whereas e-book readers often provide the reader with many configurable layout options. Thus, e-book formats tend towards a content-with-minimal-layout-hints way of handling layout. I'm finding markdown plus pandoc a good fit for the latter. [1] http://wcm1.web.rice.edu/my-academic-book-in-plain-text.html http://wcm1.web.rice.edu/my-academic-book-in-plain-text.html [2] https://puppetlabs.com/blog/automated-ebook-generation-convert-markdown-epub-mobi-pandoc-kindlegen https://puppetlabs.com/blog/automated-ebook-generation-conve...
• JupiterMoon 11y ago
  google for pandoc...