I created this to aide me in setting up new books for my publication toolchain, which relies heavily on asciidoctor, asciidoctor-epub3, epubcheck, and kindlegen. Unfortunately, this doesn’t really help me much with the print side of publishing. But I’m working on templates for LibreOffice and Scribus to help out. I may or may not add them to the skeleton when I’m happy with them.
Simply clone the repository and duplicate for each book.
Edit the files appropriately. You can comment out anything in the files you don’t want or need in your own book(s) or even delete the lines in whole. I recommend using absolutely everything you can and merely commenting out unneeded lines because it makes it easier to go back and fix if you discover you need/want them afterall.
When complete, you get pretty darn good output with two simple commands.
asciidoctor-epub3 -D output -a ebook-format=kf8 [PATH-TO-BOOKFILE] asciidoctor-epub3 -D output -a ebook-format=epub3 -a ebook-validate [PATH-TO-BOOKFILE]
See the documentation for asciidoctor and asciidoctor-epub3 for more.
Have a look at the following videos. I believe they will assist you in crafting your work.
Well. It seem GitHub doesn’t want me to embed the videos. Crummy. Links!