A collection of tools Standard Ebooks uses to produce its ebooks, including basic setup of ebooks, text processing, and build tools.

# Install some pre-flight dependencies
# python3-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev zlib1g-dev are required for building lxml via pip
sudo apt install -y python3-pip python3-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev zlib1g-dev libxml2-utils librsvg2-bin libimage-exiftool-perl imagemagick epubcheck default-jre inkscape calibre curl git

# Install required fonts
mkdir -p ~/.fonts/
curl -s -o ~/.fonts/LeagueSpartan-Bold.otf "https://github.com/theleagueof/league-spartan/blob/master/LeagueSpartan-Bold.otf?raw=true"
curl -s -o ~/.fonts/OFLGoudyStM.otf "https://github.com/theleagueof/sorts-mill-goudy/blob/master/OFLGoudyStM.otf?raw=true"
curl -s -o ~/.fonts/OFLGoudyStM-Italic.otf "https://github.com/theleagueof/sorts-mill-goudy/blob/master/OFLGoudyStM-Italic.otf?raw=true"

# Refresh the local font cache
sudo fc-cache -fv

These instructions were tested on Mac OS X 10.12. Your mileage may vary.

1. Install the Homebrew package manager. Or, if you already have it installed, make sure it's up to date:

   brew update

2. Install dependencies:

   # Install some pre-flight dependencies
   brew install python3 epubcheck imagemagick librsvg exiftool
   
   # Install required applications
   brew cask install java calibre xquartz inkscape
   
   # Install required fonts
   curl -s -o ~/Library/Fonts/LeagueSpartan-Bold.otf "https://github.com/theleagueof/league-spartan/blob/master/LeagueSpartan-Bold.otf?raw=true"
   curl -s -o ~/Library/Fonts/OFLGoudyStM.otf "https://github.com/theleagueof/sorts-mill-goudy/blob/master/OFLGoudyStM.otf?raw=true"
   curl -s -o ~/Library/Fonts/OFLGoudyStM-Italic.otf "https://github.com/theleagueof/sorts-mill-goudy/blob/master/OFLGoudyStM-Italic.otf?raw=true"

# Clone the tools repo
git clone https://github.com/standardebooks/tools.git

# Install python dependencies
pip3 install -r ./tools/requirements.txt

# Install hyphenation dictionaries for the pyhyphen library
python3 -c "exec(\"from hyphen import dictools\\ndictools.install('en_GB')\\ndictools.install('en_US')\")"

Help and pull requests are welcomed!

• Move some legacy scripts like build-kobo and endnotes2kindle into appropriate libraries/scripts.

• Update scripts to use new library global variables like XHTML_NAMESPACES, instead of redefining them in each script.

• british2american

  Try to convert British quote style to American quote style in DIRECTORY/src/epub/text/.

  Quotes must already be "typogrified"--i.e. curly.

  This script isn't perfect; proofreading is required, especially near closing quotes near to em-dashes.

• build

  Build an ebook from a Standard Ebook source directory.

• build-cover

  Build an ebook cover a Standard Ebook source directory and place the output in DIRECTORY/src/epub/images/.

• build-kobo

  Convert files in a Standard Ebooks source directory to be Kobo-compatible.

• clean

  Prettify and canonicalize individual XHTML or SVG files, or all XHTML and SVG files in a source directory. Note that this only prettifies the source code; it doesn't perform typography changes.

• create-draft

  Create a skeleton of a new Standard Ebook.

• dec2roman

  Convert a decimal number to a Roman numeral.

• endnotes2kindle

  Convert epub-friendly endnotes to Kindle-friendly popup endnotes.

• extract-ebook

  Extract an EPUB, MOBI, or AZW3 ebook into ./FILENAME.extracted/ or a target directory.

• find-mismatched-diacritics

  Find words with mismatched diacritics in Standard Ebook source directories. For example, 'cafe' in one file and 'café' in another.

• hyphenate

  Insert soft hyphens at syllable breaks in an XHTML file.

• interactive-sr

  A macro for calling Vim to interactively search and replace a regex on a list of files.

• lint

  Check for various Standard Ebooks style errors.

• make-url-safe

  Make a string URL-safe.

• modernize-spelling

  Modernize spelling of some archaic words, and replace words that may be archaically compounded with a dash to a more modern spelling. For example, replace "ash-tray" with "ashtray".

• ordinal

  Print the ordinal for one or more integers.

• prepare-release

  Calculate work word count, insert release date if not yet set, and update modified date and revision number.

• print-manifest-and-spine

  Create a <manifest> and <spine> tag for content.opf based on the passed Standard Ebooks source directory and print to standard output.

• reading-ease

  Calculate the Flesch reading ease for a Standard Ebooks source directory.

• reorder-endnotes

  Increment the specified endnote and all following endnotes by 1.

• roman2dec

  Convert a Roman numeral to a decimal number.

• semanticate

  Apply some scriptable semantics rules from the Standard Ebooks semantics manual to a Standard Ebook source directory.

• simplify-tags

  Simplify some HTML and CSS to be more compatible with crappier reading systems (ADE I'm looking at you...)

• split-file

  Split an XHTML file into many files at all instances of <!--se:split-->, and include a header template for each file.

• titlecase

  Convert a string to titlecase.

• toc2kindle

  Flatten ToC to be at most 2 levels deep for Kindle compatibility. Generally only used by the build script and not called independently.

• typogrify

  Apply some scriptable typography rules from the Standard Ebooks typography manual to a Standard Ebook source directory.

• unicode-names

  Display Unicode code points, descriptions, and links to more details for each character in a string. Useful for differentiating between different flavors of spaces, dashes, and invisible characters like word joiners.

• update-asin

  Change the ASIN of a mobi/azw3 file.

• word-count

  Count the number of words in an HTML file and optionally categorize by length.

• view-modified

  Check all author directories in the current or specified directory to see if there are changes that need to be committed.

Many of these tools act on Standard Ebooks source directories. Such directories have a consistent minimal structure:

.
|-images/
|--cover.jpg
|--cover.source.jpg
|--cover.svg
|--titlepage.svg
|-src/
|--epub/
|---css/
|----core.css
|----local.css
|---images/
|----cover.svg
|----titlepage.svg
|---text/
|----colophon.xhtml
|----imprint.xhtml
|----titlepage.xhtml
|----uncopyright.xhtml
|---content.opf
|---onix.xml
|---toc.xhtml
|--META-INF/
|---container.xml
|--mimetype
|-LICENSE.md

./images/ contains source images for the cover and titlepages, as well as ebook-specific source images. Source images should be in their maximum available resolution, then compressed and placed in ./src/epub/images/ for distribution.

./src/epub/ contains the actual epub files.