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Electric Book / KineticGraphs demo

The Electric Book Jekyll template

A Jekyll template for creating books in multiple formats:

• print PDFs for high-end book publishing
• screen PDFs for reading on screen
• a website of books
• epubs for ebook distribution
• ebook apps for Android and iOS
• MS Word outputs for old-school editing.

Usage and documentation

1. Copy or clone this folder
2. Edit as needed:
   • _data/meta.yml
   • the stylesheet variables in book/styles
   • the content files in book/text
3. Run the run- script for your operating system.

Read the guide for much more. The guide is also an example of the template in action.

Dependencies

To use the Electric Book template on your machine, you need to have installed:

• Jekyll (and which requires Ruby and Bundler)
• PrinceXML (for PDF output; the only proprietary requirement)
• PhantomJS (to generate search indexes for web and app outputs)
• Node.js, Gulp and GraphicsMagick (to create multiformat images)
• Pandoc (for Word export)
• Cordova, Android Studio, and (on OSX) XCode (for building ebook apps)

And of course a good editor like Sublime, Brackets or Atom.