Building a Book in L^aT_eX

A tutorial for building a printable book in L^aT_eX

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Introduction

Wecome to Building a Book with L^aT_eX! This project is set up to help explore what goes into typesetting a book in L^aT_eX and what one can get out of it.

What are we trying to accomplish?

What are the tools we need?

You will need the following tools:

Git
A GitHub account
A copy of L^aT_eX as well as X_ƎL^aT_eX
The Gentium Book Basic font

What prerequisites should I have?

You will need the following things under your belt:

A basic knowledge of Git
An understanding of the basics of copyediting
Knowledge of editing plain-text source files (I recommend Atom with the language-latex package installed for working with L^aT_eX)