ePub Boilerplate

Features

• ePub v3.2 compliant book template, validated against the ePub standard with epubchecker
• Word count auto-inserted in the frontmatter
• ePub generation date auto-inserted into front-matter
• Minimal CSS
• Separate CSS for base, frontmatter, bodymatter

Gallery

Frontmatter	Chapter example	Script

Style Guide

• 12pt Times New Roman
• Indentation on every paragraph except first

Requirements

• Scripts written on macos using zsh
• Requires JRE (setup script will install)
• Requires a local copy of the epubchecker .jar file (setup script will download)

Setup

• Run build first_setup.sh to install a local version of Java (JRE) and download the epubchecker java file epuchecker.jar. This will put a copy of the Java JRE and the epubchecker .jar in a bin folder

Usage

The epub name is book and this is hardcoded into the scripts.

./publish to create book.epub in the root folder ./publish -c to include an epub check, using the standard epubchecker

Warning! The publish script deletes the previous book.epub file each time you generate a new one. I suggest you use git to track your text changes, and consider the ebook a disposable output file.

xhtml Style

Code is formatted using Prettier VSCode plugin