This workflow creates digital-first books in print, as ebooks, and for the web. We developed it for ourselves at Electric Book Works, for producing books that are largely text with some images, such as novels, non-fiction books, essays, papers, poetry, textbooks, manuals and reports.
It's a work in progress with a learning curve, but we've already used it to create high-quality books for very discerning publishers. Used well, it can completely replace InDesign for the production of book interiors.
Read the guide. As a little book, the guide is also an example of the workflow in action.
- Change
print-listtofile-listand auto-generate from file lists per product inmeta.yml - Create
win-epub.batto speed up EPUB creation - Improve Windows batch files for output to print PDF and PDF ebook
- Add CSS option for pure black in addition to rich black
- Add template folders and minimal guidance for using Javascript
- Various minor improvements
- Move all metadata out of
_config.yml, into_data(no more setting up the slug) - Support
<hr>as text divider (*** in markdown) - Minor improvements to code comments
- Minor improvement to layout of reference indexes
- Fix for blank baseurl in
win-web.batlauncher - Minor text edits
- Improve Windows batch script for PDF
- Add a Linux shell script for PDF
- Add Windows web batch script
- Experimental Windows batch file for PDF output
- Better image-set system using site variable
- Improved figure styling
- New control over image heights in figures to retain baseline grid
- Print-hiding for Sigil split markers
- Allow Prince hyphenation when no special dictionary is defined
- Fixed styling of .title-page-publisher
- Related documentation in Guide
- Add .title-page-publisher
- Liquid tags can populate whole title page and copyright page from _data