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Introduction to Pressbooks
1. How to Publish a Book with Pressbooks
2. The 5-Step Guide to Using Pressbooks
3. Navigating the Pressbooks Menus
4. Registering Your Account
5. Changing Your Password
6. Languages
7. Supported Browsers
8. My Catalog
9. User Profile
10. Upgrade
11. How to Upgrade Using a Discount Offer
12. Glossaries
13. Book Info
14. Appearance
15. Export
16. Search and Replace
17. Tools
18. How to Get Your Book Into Pressbooks
19. Copy Paste: Tried and True
20. Writing Directly in Pressbooks
21. Import from Word (docx)
22. Import from WordPress
23. The Importance of “Good Markup”
24. Common Formatting Problems in Pressbooks
25. Automatic Pages and Content
26. Copyright Page
27. What is in a Book?
28. Visual & Text Editors
29. Table of Contents: Adding a Second Level
30. Book Covers for Ebooks and Print-on-Demand
31. Parts
32. Chapters
33. Front Matter
34. Back Matter
35. Privacy Settings: Global and Chapter-level
36. Delete a Book
37. What Is a Webbook?
38. Chapter Author and Subtitle
The PressBooks Team
39. Numberless Chapters, Invisible Parts, and Customizable Section Labels
40. Collapsible Subsections for Webbook
41. PDF Export & Options
42. Ebook (EPUB + Mobi) Exports
Hugh McGuire
43. Customizing your Exports with Custom Styles
44. How to Copy a Book, Change Your Book’s URL, or Export and Import Pressbooks XML
45. How to Test Your Ebooks
46. Why Your Pressbooks MOBI File Doesn’t Look Nice When You Test on your iPhone or iPad (and Why You Shouldn’t Worry About It!)
47. Theme Lock
48. Export Validation Logs
49. Internal and External Hyperlinks
50. Typography: Hyphens
51. Paragraphs, Indents, No-indents and Poetry
52. Running Heads & Running Feet (PDF only)
53. Chapter Title Styling
54. Section Breaks, Page Breaks and Blank Pages
55. Typography: Tight and Loose Tracking
56. Left or Right Chapter Openings (for Print/PDF)
57. Custom Page Size (PDF)
58. Widows, Orphans and Bottom Balancing
59. Changing the font-size and line-height in your PDF outputs
60. Changing Page Margins in PDF Exports
61. New Theme Options
62. Adding Dropcaps to Your Book
63. Columns (for PDF)
64. Adding Pullquotes
65. Formatting Ordered Lists
66. Shortcodes
67. Paginated Chapters in a Webbook
68. Embedded Media & Interactive Content
69. Enabling and Using Lightboxes for Images
70. Media Attributions
71. Adding Images
72. Image Editing
73. Media: Images & Best Practices
74. Supported Media Upload Formats
75. File Size and Storage Limits
76. Accessibility & Universal Design
77. Themes for Academic and Educational Texts
78. Creative Commons Licensing
79. Users & Collaborators
80. Comments and Review
81. Book Cloning
82. Source Comparison for Cloned Books
83. H5P Interactive Content
84. Enable and Use Markdown
85. Hypothesis for Webbook Annotation & Comments
86. Web Distribution of Exported Files
87. Math in Pressbooks
88. Tables & Textboxes
89. Navigation & Internal Links
90. Footnotes and (Chapter) Endnotes
91. Catalogs
92. Open Educational Resource Repositories and Guides
93. Zotero Citations for Pressbooks Webbooks
94. Common Cartridge Files with Web Links
95. Publishing in the Kindle Store
96. Getting Your Book into Kobo
97. Get Your Book into Google and Nook
98. Need Help Publishing Your Ebook?
99. Print-on-Demand with IngramSpark
Resources
Testing End Notes
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