TildePublishingUnlimited/README.md

TildePublishingUnlimited

E-book publishing projects for generating fiction works, zines, documentation, and other things.

Write in markdown, compile beautiful pdfs, and ebooks.

TEMPLATES:

• ebook-story book: short stories, fiction works, verse.
• Upcoming:
  • seriousbook: nonfiction, technical documentation, etc.
  • pamphlets: short informative works.
  • flier-sm-poster: small poster (A4/letter) fliers or posters
  • menu: menus for foods, goods, services
  • recipes: standalone recipes, should be able to include in book template in the future.

REQUIREMENTS:

• texlive-full (url)
  • or at least some abridged texlive install with latexmk, texlive-fonts-extra
  • Lipsum package to compile demos
• perl5 (req'd by texlive-full)
• pandoc

DEVELOPMENT MAP:

• first template set up
• Identify templates for inclusion in project
• Modify templates to follow editing conventions (markdown \includes, etc.)
• get them working & then use githooks to streamline testing during development.
• Begin work on makefiles
• Begin work on other output formats using pandoc - ebook formats, html formats(will need css magics)

TODO:

• Define auxfiles directory and succeed in compiling pdf without losing aux files.
• Makefile framework for projects
• Change script md2pdf.sh to move .tex files to a different directory to compile from, isolate "*.md" files