You'll need to edit some files before you can start making a book.
The first line of this file looks like this
book = yourbookname
You should edit "yourbookname" to be a filename-friendly version of your book's title. Or some other value that you want to use as the filename for the output files.
Of course, you don't need to edit this value at all. If you don't, you will end up with files called yourbookname.epub, yourbookname.mobi and yourbookname.pdf.
This file contains various metadata values that are used when building your ebook. The bits you will want to change are clearly marked between sets of double square brackets. Don't forget to remove the square brackets when you edit the values.
The values you need to change are:
- [[YOUR TITLE HERE]] - your book's title
- [[SURNAME, FORENAME]] and [FORENAME SURNAME]] - the author's name in two different formats
- [[YOUR PUBLISHER HERE]] - the name of the publisher
- [[YYYY-MM-DD]] - the publication date
- [[2016]] - the copyright year
Note: I should certainly find a way for the last two values to be generated automatically.
The title and author's name need to be in this file too. Once again the places that you need to update are marked with double square brackets. Once again, you should remove these square brackets when you fill in your information.
This file starts off empty. It contains a list of the files that make up your book - one file per line. This makes it easy to re-order chapters.
It's up to you how you organise your text and, therefore, exactly what this file contains. I like to create a directory called "chapters" and put the chapter files in there.