Saturday, June 8, 2019

Planning a self published book - 3

Part 1 of this series is here.
Part 2 is here.

Book structure
I decided on the size and contents of the book. If the book is 48 pages then I have 42 pages with keywords. The structure will be:
Front cover : 1 (title page) + 1 (blank)
Content : 42 (keywords) + 1 (blank) + 1 (explanation)
Back cover : 2 (blank)
 
Book layout
For my first draft this will be the layout. It will be reviewed by an expert later.


LateX script
I've hacked the following script to make the layout. It will cause pain to real LateX experts. It will make them cringe and look away:

\documentclass[12pt,a5paper]{book}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[a5paper, total={11cm, 17cm}]{geometry}
\usepackage{bera}
\usepackage{ragged2e}
\pagestyle{empty}
\usepackage{fix-cm}
\usepackage[absolute,overlay]{textpos}

\begin{document}

\sffamily

\newpage
\thispagestyle{empty}
\mbox{}


% the front cover
\begin{textblock*}{7cm}(2.7cm,4cm) % {block width} (coords) 
\fontsize{60}{70}\selectfont \bfseries LOST
\end{textblock*}

\begin{textblock*}{7cm}(3.4cm,6cm) % {block width} (coords) 
\fontsize{60}{60}\selectfont \bfseries BOOK
\end{textblock*}

\begin{textblock*}{7cm}(4.1cm,8cm) % {block width} (coords) 
\fontsize{60}{70}\selectfont \bfseries FOUND
\end{textblock*}

\begin{textblock*}{7cm}(3.7cm,12cm) % {block width} (coords) 
\fontsize{14}{70}\selectfont A Rotterdam reconstruction
\end{textblock*}

\begin{textblock*}{7cm}(3.7cm,13cm) % {block width} (coords) 
\fontsize{14}{70}\selectfont Volume 1 (Kindle version)
\end{textblock*}


% back side of the front cover
\null\newpage
\null\newpage


\rmfamily

\begin{flushleft}
\textbf{Keyword1} \\
\smallskip
\textit{Date1, Street1 - Something that happened in Rotterdam.} \\
\bigskip
This is the first section.
 
Lorem  ipsum  dolor  sit  amet,  consectetuer  adipiscing  
elit.   Etiam  lobortisfacilisis sem.  Nullam nec mi et 
neque pharetra sollicitudin.  Praesent imperdietmi nec ante. 
Donec ullamcorper, felis non sodales...
\end{flushleft}

\newpage

\begin{flushleft}
\textbf{Keyword2} \\
\smallskip
\textit{Date2, Street2 - Something that happened in Rotterdam.} \\
\bigskip

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.  
Etiam lobortis facilisissem.  Nullam nec mi et neque pharetra 
sollicitudin.  Praesent imperdiet mi necante...
\end{flushleft}

\begin{flushleft}
Hello, here is some text without a meaning.  This text should show what 
a printed text will look like at this place.  If you read this text, 
you will get no information.  Really?  Is there no information?  Is there 
a difference between this text and some nonsense like not at all!  A 
blind text like this gives you information about the selected font, how 
the letters are written and an impression of the look.  This text should
contain all letters of the alphabet and it should be written in of the
original language.There is no need for special content, but the length of
words should match the language.
\end{flushleft}


\newpage

\begin{flushleft}
\textbf{Keyword3} \\
\smallskip
\textit{Date3, Street3 - Something that happened in Rotterdam.} \\
\bigskip
This is the third section.
 
Lorem  ipsum  dolor  sit  amet,  consectetuer  adipiscing  
elit.   Etiam  lobortisfacilisis sem.  Nullam nec mi et 
neque pharetra sollicitudin.  Praesent imperdietmi nec ante. 
Donec ullamcorper, felis non sodales...

This pattern will be repeated for many pages.

\end{flushleft}


\null\newpage
\null\newpage


\begin{flushleft}
\textbf{Explanation} \\
\smallskip
\textit{What inspired me and what I did with it.} \\
\bigskip
This is the third section.
 
Lorem  ipsum  dolor  sit  amet,  consectetuer  adipiscing  
elit.   Etiam  lobortisfacilisis sem.  Nullam nec mi et 
neque pharetra sollicitudin.  Praesent imperdietmi nec ante. 
Donec ullamcorper, felis non sodales...
\end{flushleft}


%front side of back cover
\null\newpage
\null\newpage


%back side of back cover
\null\newpage


\end{document}

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