README for novel extras

This folder contains items that may be helpful, but are not essential to operation of the novel document class. Version 2.1.

File novel-example.tex is a fake short novel. If you wish to compile it, place a copy in your user home folder (or other place where you have read/write privilege) and compile it there.

File novel-decoglyphs.pdf shows the decorative characters in the NovelDeco.otf file, along with the codes needed to retrieve them.

novel-scripts.zip

IMPORTANT: The techniques described in these scripts, are rarely needed nowadays (late 2023).

This zip archive contains Windows batch scripts, and Linux/OSX BASH scripts, for automatic image conversion.

The scripts are meant to ensure that your use of images complies with commercial printing standards. In particular, they provide a method for converting color cover artwork to CMYK at 240% ink limit, in a PDF/X-1a:2001 file.

Complete usage instructions are documented within the zip archive.

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.
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