1.1 | Tutorial Table Of Contents

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Section 1: Intro

• General Info

• General Overview

• Benefit of this method?

• How much do users need to know beforehand?

• What can go wrong?

• Abiding Philosophy

• Recommendations

• Need Help?

Section 2: Save Your Sanity

• Meet The Production Slug

• Semantics

• Tutorial Layout

• Tutorial Navigation

• The First Three Steps

• Create A Production Folder

• Create A Project Key

• Label The Key

• Sanity Checklist

Section 3: Download & Install Software

• Software Installation Checklist

• KindleGen Installation Instructions

Section 4: Software Issues & Decisions

• Show File Extensions

• How To Show the Correct Filetype

• Select A Word Processor

• Select A Plain-Text Editor

• Software Issue Checklist

Section 5: Download Files

• File-Download Checklist

Section 6: Gather Content

• Story

• Front And Back Matter

• Why Label Front And Back Matter Sections?

• Add A Title Page

• Add A License Page

• Optional Front Matter

• Add An About The Author Page

• Cover Art

• Other Images

• Content Ready?

• Section Checklist

• Section Labels

• Additional Content Considerations

Section 7: Finalize Partitions

• ACTION List: Create A Working Copy

• Partitions

• What You Need To Know

• What You Need To Do

• Numerical Issues

• Special Cases

• Actions

• Partition Checklist

• Partition Header Issues

• Basic EPUB Anatomy

Section 8: Editorial Concerns

• Tables

• Nested Lists

• Blank Lines

  • Manual Line Breaks, Page Breaks and Section Breaks

• Special Fonts

• Hyperlinks

• Special Characters

  • Ellipses, Hyphens, Em- and En-dashes

  • Quotation Marks And Apostrophes

  • The Ampersand

• Block Quotes

• Section Checklist

Section 9: Images

• Images

• Images And Amazon

• Image Slugs

• Action List

• Action

• Section Checklist

Section 10: Finalize the Key

Section 11: Housekeeping

• Action: File Version

• Foreplay

• Find/Replace Basics

• Find & Replaces

• Tabs

• Manual line breaks

• Page breaks

• Section breaks

• Extra paragraph returns

• Stray spaces 1

• Stray spaces 2

• Stray spaces 3

Section 12: Applying Tags

• Action: Show formatting characters

• Action: File Version

• Tag Basics

• Tag Find & Replaces

• Italic Tags

• Bold Tags

• Descrew Italics

• Descrew Bold

• Paragraph tags

• Add Paragraph Tags

• Stray Tags

• Remove Empty Paragraph Tags

• Remove Space Paragraphs

• Beware

Section 13: Header Tags

• Header tag checklist

• Hierarchical/Anthology tagging

Section 14: Create An HTML Version

• HTML Checklist

Section 15: Create An EPUB Version

Section 16: Create A MOBI Version

Section 17: Closing & Reference

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