Pandoc book template

Modified from pandoc-book-template

Description

This repository contains a simple template for building Pandoc documents into ebook; Pandoc is a suite of tools to compile markdown files into EPUB file.

Usage

Installing

Please, check this page for more information.

Folder structure

Here's a folder structure for a Pandoc book:

my-book/         # Root directory.
|- build/        # Folder used to store builded (output) files.
|- chapters/     # Markdowns files; one for each chapter.
|- images/       # Images folder.
|  |- cover.png  # Cover page for epub.
|- style.css     # Css file
|- metadata.yml  # Metadata content (title, author...).

Setup generic data

Edit the metadata.yml file to set configuration data (note that it must start and end with ---):

---
title: My book title
author: Daniel Herzog
rights: MIT License
lang: en-US
tags: [pandoc, book, my-book, etc]
abstract: |
  Your summary.
mainfont: DejaVu Sans

# Filter preferences:
# - pandoc-crossref
linkReferences: true
---

You can find the list of all available keys on this page.

Creating chapters

Creating a new chapter is as simple as creating a new markdown file in the chapters/ folder; you'll end up with something like this:

chapters/01-introduction.md
chapters/02-installation.md
chapters/03-usage.md
chapters/04-references.md

Pandoc and Make will join them automatically ordered by name; that's why the numeric prefixes are being used.

All you need to specify for each chapter at least one title:

# Introduction

This is the first paragraph of the introduction chapter.

## First

This is the first subsection.

## Second

This is the second subsection.

Each title (#) will represent a chapter, while each subtitle (##) will represent a chapter's section. You can use as many levels of sections as markdown supports.

Export to EPUB

Use this command:

mkdir -p build
pandoc --toc --toc-depth=2 --webtex --css=style.css --metadata-file=metadata.yml  --verbose --wrap=none --epub-cover-image=images/cover.png -o build/epub.epub $(printf '"%s" ' chapters/*.md)

or with fishshell

mkdir -p build
pandoc --toc --toc-depth=2 --webtex --css=style.css --metadata-file=metadata.yml  --verbose --wrap=none --epub-cover-image=images/cover.png -o build/epub.epub chapters/*.md

The generated file will be placed in build/epub.epub.

Release

Make a tag to release your book.

Extra configuration

If you want to configure the output, you'll probably have to look the Pandoc Manual for further information about pdf (LaTeX) generation, custom styles, etc, and modify the Makefile file accordingly.

Templates

Output files are generated using pandoc templates. All templates are located under the templates/ folder, and may be modified as you will. Some basic format templates are already included on this repository, ion case you need something to start with.

References

• Pandoc
• Pandoc Manual
• Wikipedia: Markdown

Action Secrets

Setup for Google SMTP

MAIL_USERNAME: [email protected]
MAIL_PASSWORD: your password or app password
MAIL_TO: your_kindle_email@kindle,[email protected]
MAIL_FROM: [email protected]

Contributors

This project has been developed by:

Avatar	Name	Nickname	Email
	Daniel Herzog	Wikiti	[email protected]