How-to guides for various more complex ebook production tasks.
Standard Ebooks Hints and Tricks, a beginner’s guide by one of our editors.
+Descriptions of the files in a fresh Standard Ebooks source folder.
This guide is meant to take you step-by-step through the creation of a complete Standard Ebook. While it might seem a little long, most of the text is a description of how to use various automated scripts. It can take just an hour or two for an experienced producer to produce a draft ebook for proofreading (depending on the complexity of the ebook, of course).
Our toolset is GNU/Linux-based, and producing an ebook from scratch currently requires working knowledge of the epub file format and of Unix-like systems like Mac or Linux.
Our toolset doesn’t yet work natively on Windows, but there are many ways to run Linux from within Windows, including one that is directly supported by Microsoft themselves.
-If you don’t have this kind of technical expertise, you can still contribute! Check out our contributors page for details.
+If you don’t have this kind of technical expertise, you can still contribute! Check out our contributors page for details, or check out Standard Ebooks Hints and Tricks, a beginner’s guide by one of our editors.