Font and overall apperance of published result is quite ugly

costoffreedom / costoffreedom-book

Cost of Freedom for Gitbook

https://book.costoffreedom.cc

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Font and overall apperance of published result is quite ugly #6

Closed clemsos closed 8 years ago

clemsos commented 8 years ago

Maybe we could port the work Julien did on the first version of the book : https://github.com/costoffreedom/oldies/tree/master/original-book

clemsos commented 8 years ago

Looks like Gitbook didnt accept any custom fonts... @christopheradams I remembered you said you were trying sth with latex no ?

clemsos commented 8 years ago

we can easily use latex to make a pdf using a cleaner template with Pandoc https://gist.github.com/clemsos/9e480b2b792b57f1b22d

christopheradams commented 8 years ago

Yes, pandoc works well for this task.

What I did for https://github.com/waiting4bassel/waiting-latex/ (see the dev branch):

add the gitbook repo as a subtree
write a Makefile to convert the md files to tex
write a custom latex preamble to format the book the way you want it (for costoffreedom you'd really want to parse SUMMARY.md to get the chapter names and section ordering right)

It's a fair amount of work.

clemsos commented 8 years ago

thanks for the heads up chris !

I throw basis for latex build with Makefile and basic md > tex conversion (using pandoc). Works fairly well. Just need to tweak the .cls Latex class to have a clean display. It is already looking waaaay better than the gitbook build :)

Actually I saw the work you are doing on waiting4bassel book. Maybe we should merge efforts - or just debrief afterwards on all these publishing stuff.

clemsos commented 8 years ago

consider this solved by #10 . closing