Implement new margin and font size standard based on recent printing tests.

Add more consistent quoting.
Change pdfbook2 command to not crop which was messing with margins.
2025-10-04 18:20:01 -07:00 · 2025-10-04 13:54:12 -07:00 · 2025-10-04 08:07:35 -07:00 · 2025-10-04 06:55:12 -07:00
2 changed files with 8 additions and 5 deletions
--- a/convert.sh
+++ b/convert.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 # 2024-03-06 Hyperling
 # PanDoc Usage: https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#general-writer-options

+DIR="$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")"
+cd $DIR
+
 date

 ebook="ebook.pdf"
@@ -20,7 +23,7 @@ pandoc /tmp/ebook.md \
 	-o $ebook
 status=$?

-pdfbook2 $ebook
+pdfbook2 -n $ebook

 echo "Completed with status '$status'."

--- a/ebook.md
+++ b/ebook.md
@@ -1,16 +1,16 @@
 ---
 # Font sizes can only be 10pt-12pt (https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#fonts)
-fontsize: "11pt"
-geometry: "margin=1in"
+fontsize: "12pt"
+geometry: "margin=0.5in"

 #title-meta: "Template Project"
 date-meta: "\\date{\\today}"
 author-meta: 'Chad Michael Greenwood'
-subject: Template eBook by Chad Michael Greenwood
+subject: 'Template eBook by Chad Michael Greenwood'

 title: "Template Project"
 subtitle: "Example which will be used for future eBook repositories."
-author: "by `Chad Michael Greenwood`"
+author: 'by `Chad Michael Greenwood`'
 date: "Last Revised {REVISION_DATE}"

 keywords:
Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Hyperling	54fc4e343c	Implement new margin and font size standard based on recent printing tests.	2025-10-04 18:20:01 -07:00
Hyperling	c3b6980ec2	Add more consistent quoting.	2025-10-04 13:54:12 -07:00
Hyperling	3b558a3258	Change pdfbook2 command to not crop which was messing with margins.	2025-10-04 08:07:35 -07:00
Hyperling	7da3364297	Ensure conversion takes place in the correct folder.	2025-10-04 06:55:12 -07:00