This weekend I managed to climb the steepest part of the learning curve with formatting a book using LaTeX.
Watch this space, as I should be able to complete and publish this proof of concept pretty quickly. If this book works out to be worth my time, you can expect quite a bit more publishing from me soon.
@kyle I collected some best practices here: https://github.com/daixtrose/fh-aachen-thesis-template
@markuswerle Thanks! For the most part the formatting best practices for tech books have already been burned in my brain from the dozen books I've formatted over the years for different publishers. At this point it's mostly just mapping those style guides to this particular LaTeX book template I'm using.
It feels similar to the process of switching from one publisher's Word template to another's, only I can use vim and a keyboard, instead of a mouse!
@kyle ok