Professional Book Formatting With Latex

Turn a manuscript into a beautiful looking book - Get professional results and make it ready to be published.

What you'll learn

Hot to create beautiful-looking book pages.

Learn what typesetting is all about and why it matters.

Turn your manuscript into a ready-to-print book.

Project driven approach.

Master the tools so they can do the hard work for you.

How to add chapters, initials, table of contents, list of figures, tables, footnotes and much more.

Requirements

Basic to Intermediate computer knowledge, a computer and Internet access.

Your brain and the drive to learn.

Description

FORMAT YOUR BOOK JUST LIKE THE PROS!In this course you'll find easy to follow lessons to learn how to format the pages of a book and get professional results.I'm going to teach you how to solve one of the most overlooked and time consuming tasks when creating any type of publication - Formatting.Let's be honest,  we all know how hard and tedious it is. When you format, design or typeset the interior of any document, you usually have these options available: word editors, expensive boutique software and paying top dollars for a professional.Now imagine being in CONTROL of the design of your next book with the help of the tools and techniques I will show you. Here I'll introduce you to the craft of typesetting with the help of an "obscure" but powerful software - LaTeX. (pronouced Lay-Tek or Lah-Tek)For years LaTeX has been used in the academic world helping millions of students to typeset and organize their work for publishing and now I'll show you how you can use its power for creating professional looking books. You will finally ditch word editors for good.At the end of this course you will be ready to create the interior layout of your best seller and save hundreds of dollars.You will be able to Do It Yourself and it will look great.But this is not a typical design course.You won't waste time tweaking the page layout with a mouse.You won't be using expensive software or expensive computers.All software and resources used in the course are available for FREE.Will it be hard to learn? The answer is No.I'll cover from the basics until you have a beautifully generated PDF of your book.And I'll show you how to do it step-by-step.What you will learn:Learn the quality standards that make a professional looking book. Learn to lay out the Front Matter, Main Matter and Back Matter. Hands-on approach - from a raw text manuscript to a ready-to-print PDF. Output beautiful looking pages.How to insert pictures, chapter openings, footnotes and much more.And learn how to fix common typesetting problems.Now it's your turn to take the ideas you have been working on and let it shine in the pages of your next book.Click now on [ Buy This Course! ] See you in there!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 What Is LaTeX

Section 2: Tools for the job - Hands on begins here

Lecture 3 Tools for the Job

Lecture 4 Overleaf - Creating a new project

Section 3: Typesetting a Fiction book

Lecture 5 From Manuscript to Book - Your First LaTeX document

Lecture 6 Adding the main text

Lecture 7 Defining the chapters

Lecture 8 Splitting chapters in files

Lecture 9 Customizing the chapter presentation

Lecture 10 Using the Fancy Chapter Package

Lecture 11 Inserting the Table of Contents

Lecture 12 Changing the typeface

Lecture 13 Changing the line space

Lecture 14 Changing the font size

Lecture 15 Changing font color

Lecture 16 Headers

Lecture 17 Footnotes

Lecture 18 Ornaments and fleurons

Lecture 19 Adding images

Lecture 20 Initials

Lecture 21 Fine tuning and Quality Control

Lecture 22 Book Parts - Making it Feel Professional

Lecture 23 Book Parts - Front Matter - Half Title Page

Lecture 24 Book Parts - Front Matter - Title Page

Lecture 25 Book Parts - Front Matter - Copyright Page

Lecture 26 Book Parts - Front Matter - Dedication Page

Lecture 27 Book Parts - Front Matter - Foreword Page

Lecture 28 Book Parts - Back Matter - Acknowledgements and About the Author

Lecture 29 Exporting the PDF

Lecture 30 Wrapping up typesetting a fiction book

Section 4: Typesetting a Non-Fiction book.

Lecture 31 Creating the Document File

Lecture 32 Adding Figures

Lecture 33 Working with tables

Lecture 34 Adding bullet points

Lecture 35 Working with boxes

Lecture 36 Sans-serif and monospace fonts - Where to use them

Lecture 37 Working with multi-columns text

Lecture 38 Side or margin notes

Lecture 39 Advanced header customization

Lecture 40 Mathematical expressions

Lecture 41 Code block and algorithms

Lecture 42 Bibliography and citation

Lecture 43 Wrapping up Non-Fiction books.

Self-publishing authors who want to save time and money.,Non-academic writers who want to publish their ideas.,Anyone who wants to learn how to typeset a beautiful ready-to-print book.,Anyone who is curious about LaTeX and interior book design.