Brandon Sanderson has his book Warbreaker available for free as an ebook on his website. For ease of reading and offline availability, I created a PDF version of the book.

This Python 3.10.8 script uses Selenium 4.8.0 to scrape the version of the book hosted on Brandon Sanderson's website.

This scraper generates .tex files in output/ that converts the main text on each page from HTML to LaTeX.

For example, something like

<p>This is <i>some</i> text.</p>

is written to the output file as

This is \textit{some} text.

This conversion is also automatically done for chapter title, sections headers, and even the table and description list contained in the Ars Arcanum.

On top of generating .tex files for each chapter, this script also generates warbreaker_full.tex, which is the main .tex file which \include's each of the chapters in order.

Brandon Sanderson also posted parallel annotations for each chapter in the book, but since I found it tedious to jump back and forth between the main text and the annotations, I have also appended all of the annotations to the end of each chapter.

WARNING: Some of the annotations do contain spoilers, all text that is in red is a spoiler.

The purpose of webscraper.py was not to create a finished product, merely to do the majority of the work for me (rather than copying the plain text and doing all of the formattin by hand).

After running webscraper.py, I copied all the files from output/ to final/ and used a combination of vim magic and a small amount of manual work to finalize the typesetting.

Finally, I created warbreaker.sty in order to define stylistic parameters for the document.

As outlined by Brandon Sanderson, his book is protected under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

In compliance with that license, I have not modified the text of the book in any way, merely typeset it. This is not my writing, I am not the author of this book.

If you notice any mistakes that I have made in converting the book into a PDF or any inconsistencies between the PDF and the online version of the book, please let me know!