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My LaTeX to print novels

This repository is not a project to install. Its purpose is to share the LaTeX configuration I use to print French novels.

About

From LaTeX to PDF

Most printers require PDF or Word formats to print novels.

Texmaker is a fantastic editor to write a book in LaTeX then easily build a PDF out of it.

LaTeX makes quite simple to configure a set of rules and margins that can apply to any book. The first one is the hardest, then you earn some precious time on next projects ;)

Fit French

The configuration I share in this repo is meant to be a source of inspiration for any project, but it fits the design of a French novel.

Rules are quite different from one language to another. For instance, in English books, the first paragraph of a chapter is not indented ; in French books, it is. I don't know all possible differences in all possible languages, but note I built this config for my French books.

Features

Overview

This configuration shows how to:

  • Add empty white pages where they are needed
  • Move a block at the bottom of the page to write the editor's data and other legal stuff
  • Customize "maketitle" to display a custom title page
  • Control margins and let the 2cm required by printers on each side
  • Deactivate word-break at the end of the line (as text is justified)
  • Not add a white page if a chapter ends on an odd page
  • Manually reset the page number (because the empty white page doesn't count)
  • Not display page number on the editor's data page
  • Not display page number on end of chapter pages
  • Customize the table of contents name
  • Customize the table of content style to make it a little smaller and add dots

Demo

Here is the output PDF built with Texmaker and the set of LaTeX files: Demo PDF