These are helpful references and information that I gathered as I began my LaTeX journey.
Using LaTeX to publish with CreateSpace
With experience I'm improving the workflow. Now I load the htlatex output in Calibre, then convert to EPUB, then edit with Sigil for TOC, metadata and cover. The result is almost perfect. – mvalle Jan 16 '12 at 11:49 | |||
| Using memoir's ebook option makes perfectly sense if you want to read your document as a native PDF on your reader. I don't see the point in using that when converting to EPUB or MOBI, though. – fudo Jan 25 |
LaTeX book templates:
Sigil is an open source epub editing/publishing program:
https://github.com/Sigil-Ebook/Sigil/releases
Poetry anthology latex help: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/153262/latex-poetry-anthology-templates - using memoir and poetrytex
http://tug.org/pracjourn/2008-2/madsen/madsen.pdf
LaTeX resources for beginners: http://latex.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2177
The English PDF: http://ftp.math.purdue.edu/mirrors/ctan.org/info/lshort/english/lshort-letter.pdf
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/877597/how-do-you-change-the-document-font-in-latex For a different approach, I would suggest using the XeTeX or LuaTex system. They allow you to access system fonts (TrueType, OpenType, etc) and set font features. In a typical LaTeX document, you just need to include this in your headers:
\usepackage{fontspec}
\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text,Scale=MatchLowercase}
\setmainfont{Times}
\setmonofont{Lucida Sans Typewriter}
It's the fontspec package that allows for \setmainfont and \setmonofont. The ability to choose a multitude of font features is beyond my expertise, but I would suggest looking up some examples and seeing if this would suit your needs.
https://www.thebookdesigner.com/2015/08/5-favorite-free-fonts/ - some favorite free fonts to try
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/03/taking-a-second-look-at-free-fonts/ - more free fonts (excellent article about open source fonts and characteristics you should care about)