https://github.com/artefact2/texbrew

An attempt to make good-looking homebrew documents for various roleplaying systems using XeTeX for typesetting.
https://github.com/artefact2/texbrew

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An attempt to make good-looking homebrew documents for various roleplaying systems using XeTeX for typesetting.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/artefact2/texbrew
• Owner: Artefact2
• License: wtfpl
• Created: 2017-02-15T17:41:46.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-09-21T02:53:40.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-10T22:40:23.811Z (about 2 months ago)
• Topics: dungeons-and-dragons, homebrew, latex, rpg, tex, xetex
• Language: TeX
• Homepage:
• Size: 10.2 MB
• Stars: 53
• Watchers: 13
• Forks: 8
• Open Issues: 4
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: COPYING

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TEXBREW

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An attempt to make good-looking homebrew documents for various

roleplaying systems (currently only D&D 5e), using

XƎTEX for typesetting.

Unless otherwise specified, all documents are released under the

WTFPLv2. See the `COPYING` file for more details.

Some of the assets are released under different licenses. See the

`CREDITS.tex` files for more details.

Motivation

==========

Why create something like this? Well, TEX was *made* to

typeset documents with perfection. As such, it takes care of difficult

things such as:

* Correct page layout (left/right pages have different margins, chapters always open on a right page, etc.);

* Handling page breaks properly (even with multi-column text);

* Handling floating things (narrow or wide) and placing them appropriately;

* Keeping track of things (table of contents, references, appendices, etc.);

* Good pagination, marks, etc;

* And many other things we don't even think about (like autoadjusting spaces to avoid widows and orphans).

Why use XƎTEX ? For one, it is modern (unicode

support out of the box) and makes it easy to use custom OpenType

fonts (with fontspec).

Demos

=====

* **For D&D 5e: https://artefact2.gitlab.io/texbrew/dnd-5e/skel.pdf** ([draft version](https://artefact2.gitlab.io/texbrew/dnd-5e/draft-skel.pdf))

Usage

=====

To compile the demo document:

    cd dnd-5e

    make skel.pdf

    # Or: make draft-skel.pdf for a draft version (faster, no graphics)

To start your own document:

    cd dnd-5e

    cp skel.tex mybook.tex

    $EDITOR mybook.tex

    make mybook.pdf

    # Or: make draft-mybook.pdf

Todo

====

* art overlays (under tables, etc.)

* [fix XXXs](https://github.com/Artefact2/texbrew/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=XXX)

* fix bugs