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Writing a book in the age of open source


The power of engineering applied to writing

All the way from custom type faces (allowing us to use our favourite typefaces from Connary Fagen) to being able to easily generate the front and back matter, including the covers as well as a index. The memory of countless hours spent during university writing our first scientific paper with LaTeX quickly reminded us why it wasn't the right choice for this project. It will also provide you with a backbone structure and a GitHub workflow which will enable you to generate a PDF as well as an EPUB, ready to submit to your preferred self-publishing platform ( Gumroad, Leanpub, Amazon KDP, etc.

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