commented:
I recently finished writing a (short, 58,000-word) novel. Now I have
the problem of formatting it nicely for PDF. Previously, for short
stories, I’ve exported from my editor (Scrivener) into .docx format,
imported that into Apple’s Pages app, and done a bunch of manual
formatting. The obvious problem is that now I can’t make further
textual changes in Scrivener, or I’ll have to redo all the formatting.
I finally found the solution: export to ePub, then unzip the file —
it’s just a bunch of XHTML files, a CSS file and some XML metadata —
and customize the stylesheet. Then I open the chapters in a browser,
chose Print, and save to PDF. Next time I export, I just drop in the
custom stylesheet.
Anyway, I’ve gotten the formatting pretty nice — hyphenation,
widow/orphan suppression, keeping headers on the same page as the next
paragraph… — but I didn’t know how to add page headers and footers
with page numbers and chapter titles. Until now.

  commented:
The main trick is using Prince XML which supports several experimental
CSS features for paged media, that web browsers do not.

  commented:
I discovered that after I read farther! Excellent tool … although if I
want to self-publish this book I’ll have to pony up for the commercial
single-user license, which is pretty steep at US$500.

  commented:
I work on Prince. Always nice to see it get a mention.
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