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Typesetting books for print-on-demand with Bash and LaTeX

Primary LanguageTeXBSD 2-Clause "Simplified" LicenseBSD-2-Clause

books

Typesetting LaTeX with Python.

Can be used for digital reading, or print-on-demand prints with Lulu, Amazon KDP, etc...

How to typeset a new book

  1. Find a public domain book (i.e. before circa 1930)
  2. Download a .rtf or .txt file from the internet (use rtf2latex2e if a .rtf source is available)
  3. Rename config.py.template to config.py and edit the fields.
  4. Use helpers.py to tidy up the source code (i.e. correct quotations, collapse newline, fix underline italics, correct footnotes) and fix formatting. Uncomment and/or comment functions to suit your needs.
  5. Format the title page as well as the introduction, appendix, etc. Again, use helpers.py or do this manually (might be faster?)
  6. Profit