SerialStyle

A collection of styles for use with BookGen, especially suited to serialized works. Featuring:

• Standard Serif and Largetype Sans PDF forms
• Additional information on chapter­‑only PDFs for ease of distribution
• Trade (6x9in) page size
• CSS stylesheet with optionally embedded fonts

Prerequisites

PDF styles are designed for use with XeLaTeX (the BookGen default).

Fonts (for PDF)

All PDF styles require the Old Standard TT fonts. The Largetype style additionally requires Lato.

The Web+Fonts style embeds the Old Standard TT font using Base64 data: URIs. The Web-Fonts style lacks this font-embedding.

Colours (for HTML):

By specifying a raw HTML <style> block in the header-includes of your project, you can change the colours of the document in supporting browsers by overriding the following CSS custom properties on the root element:

• --SerialStyle-Colour-White
• --SerialStyle-Colour-Bright
• --SerialStyle-Colour-Light
• --SerialStyle-Colour-Regular
• --SerialStyle-Colour-Medium
• --SerialStyle-Colour-Dark
• --SerialStyle-Colour-Dim
• --SerialStyle-Colour-Black

For example:

header-includes: |
  ```{=html}
  <style>
  html {
  	--SerialStyle-Colour-White: #FFF8E3;
  	--SerialStyle-Colour-Bright: #EEE2BF;
  	--SerialStyle-Colour-Light: #AA9F7F;
  	--SerialStyle-Colour-Regular: #998B53;
  	--SerialStyle-Colour-Medium: #887744;
  	--SerialStyle-Colour-Dark: #776335;
  	--SerialStyle-Colour-Dim: #443628;
  	--SerialStyle-Colour-Black: #332714;
  }
  </style>
  ```

Makefile configuration

To make usage of these styles simpler, you might want to set up a makefile in your work directory which automatically generates symlinks to their locations. The provided Makefile is intended to aid in this process. The following is an example makefile that one might set up which makes use of it:

SHELL = /bin/sh

# Replace with the paths to these repositories on your device:
BOOKGEN := BookGen
SERIALSTYLE := SerialStyle

# BookGen configuration:
# DRAFTS := Drafts
# export DRAFTS

default: serialstyle bookgen

# BookGen default make:
bookgen:
	@$(MAKE) -ef "$(BOOKGEN)/GNUmakefile"

# SerialStyle default make:
serialstyle:
	@$(MAKE) -f "$(SERIALSTYLE)/Makefile"

# Do not pattern­‑match this makefile:
Makefile: ;

# Always pass all unmatched patterns through to BookGen after running a SerialStyle make:
%: serialstyle
	@$(MAKE) -ef "$(BOOKGEN)/GNUmakefile" $@

# Delete generated files:
clobber distclean gone:
	@$(MAKE) -f "$(SERIALSTYLE)/Makefile" gone
	@$(MAKE) -ef "$(BOOKGEN)/GNUmakefile" gone

.PHONY: default bookgen serialstyle clobber distclean gone