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Laniakea Books Handbook

Book production

  1. Acquire book text in any form.
    • title
    • subtitle
    • blurb
    • author bio
  2. Decide book dimensions
  3. Typeset book
    • Affinity Publisher / Adobe InDesign
    • TeX / Tectonic
    • typst
  4. Decide paper gsm and calculate spine width
  5. Design cover
    • front
    • back
    • insides
    • spine
  6. Decide number of copies
  7. Get quotes from printers
  8. Decide retail price
  9. Issue and assign ISBN
  10. Generate EAN-13 ISBN barcode with zint
  11. Supply book data
  12. Produce HTML files and create epub
  13. Validate epub using epubcheck
  14. Add book files on website

Coding practices

  • All our code is licensed under MIT.
  • All book assets are stored inside dedicated repositories with the prefix book- inside our GitHub org.
  • We aim to maintain a minimal set of dependencies across our work.

TeX

  • We use the tectonic distribution of TeX.
    • Tectonic is a XeTeX distribution, which brings some kind of limitations.

EPUB

  • We follow the EPUB 3.3 specification.
  • We compile using Zip 3.0 (July 5th 2008), by Info-ZIP, bundled with macOS.
    • With -X attribute: Do not save extra file attributes (Extended Attributes on OS/2, uid/gid and file times on Unix).
  • We validate using epubcheck.