https://github.com/rachelandrew/css-books

Example files for building CSS books
https://github.com/rachelandrew/css-books

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Example files for building CSS books

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/rachelandrew/css-books
• Owner: rachelandrew
• License: unlicense
• Created: 2014-07-15T12:37:20.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-11-09T08:41:46.000Z (about 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-14T07:26:10.233Z (9 months ago)
• Language: CSS
• Size: 1.79 MB
• Stars: 74
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 10
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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css-books

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Example files for building CSS books. I use these as my starting point and reference them in my presentation [CSS and Ebooks](http://rachelandrew.co.uk/presentations/css-books) and Net Magazine tutorial. Resources and more information about CSS and creating ebooks in a variety of formats can be found on my site [Book Toolkit](http://booktoolkit.com).

## Using these files

The file book.html contains 3 articles from my blog to create a "book" of three chapters.

These files are for use when creating an ebook in formats for EPUB, MOBI and PDF using the following commandline tools. 

* [pandoc](http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/)

* [Kindlegen](http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000765211)

* [Prince](http://www.princexml.com/)

Download and install these tools first. Prince is a commercial tool however you can use it free of charge for non-commercial usage.

Git clone this repository.

### Create an EPUB

Change into the css-ebooks directory and at the cli run:

    > pandoc -o builds/book.epub book.html --epub-metadata=metadata.xml --toc --toc-depth=2 --epub-cover-image=cover.png --epub-stylesheet=epub-styles.css

### Create a MOBI

Use your EPUB as the source for the Kindlegen tool.

    > /Applications/KindleGen/kindlegen builds/book.epub

### Create a PDF

This uses the toc.html file to create the table of contents.

    > prince -s pdf-styles.css toc.html book.html builds/book.pdf

I've avoided doing much in the way of typography in these examples but feel free to fork this and make it pretty.