The Electric Book Jekyll template

A Jekyll template for making books, ebooks and book-like websites.

Usage and documentation

1. Copy or clone this folder
2. Edit as needed:
   • _data/meta.yml
   • the stylesheet variables in book/styles
   • the content files in book/text
3. Run the run- script for your operating system.

Read the guide for much more. The guide is also an example of the template in action.

Note on _includes

We have a fair number of files in _includes. To make them more friendly to use and read, we omit the .html file extension. Anything that does have a .html file extension is a bit more techie and usually won't require editing.

Known bugs on Windows

Jekyll 3.2.1 does not run on Windows due to a bug. Until this is fixed, a workaround:

1. At a command prompt, type gem environment. See where your gems are installed.
2. Go there and in the jekyll-3.2.1 folder find lib/jekyll/layout.rb.
3. Open layout.rb in a text editor and replace line 38 with @path = base + "/" + name.
4. Save and close layout.rb.

In Jekyll 3.3.0, auto-regeneration doesn't work due to our geeky fascination with shiny new things like Windows Bash. A workaround:

1. At a command prompt, type gem environment. See where your gems are installed.
2. Go there and in the jekyll-3.3.0 folder find lib/jekyll/commands/build.rb.
3. Open build.rb in a text editor and replace everything with the code in this file, which is the build.rb from Jekyll 3.2.1. (The only affected lines are 73 to the end.)
4. Save and close build.rb.