<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>wombat23</author><text>Having your own book in your hands feels awesome. I&amp;#x27;ve done the same, but not with KDP. Unfortunately, I can&amp;#x27;t publish it as I had to give up my rights to it (screw you OUP&amp;#x2F;publishing requirements!).&lt;p&gt;On the technical side, it wasn&amp;#x27;t so straightforward to me to get a good result. In my case, I had to iterate a few times and order a new copy with adjustments to margins, etc. until it looked right.&lt;p&gt;One issue I didn&amp;#x27;t manage to solve back then was that the inner margin needs to slightly increase towards the end of the book. That&amp;#x27;s because the binding is eating up visual space since you can&amp;#x27;t open the book flat without destroying it. Professional publishing tools do this automatically, but Latex doesn&amp;#x27;t have an option for it. At least that&amp;#x27;s how I remember the issue. But maybe things have changed?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I self-published a paperback and eBook using LaTeX and Pandoc</title><url>http://theroadchoseme.com/how-i-self-published-a-professional-paperback-and-ebook-using-latex-and-pandoc/?1</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ggambetta</author><text>Congratulations on the publication, such a fantastic achievement! Can imagine how happy and proud you must be feeling right now :)&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m curious about the choice of LaTeX. According to the article, it was about controlling the layout. I did something similar [0] a few years ago, but my &amp;quot;stack&amp;quot; was Markdown + Pandoc; converting Markdown directly to an epub with Pandoc was more than enough, but for the paperback version I converted the Pandoc to a LibreOffice document with a custom template; this let me do all the fine-tuning for the styles, paragraph flow, etc.&lt;p&gt;I wonder if you tried this and decided LaTeX was better, or if you went for LaTeX due to your previous familiarity with it. I have the feeling that for my novel it would have been overkill; did you get most of the value by having precise control of the layout of the images?&lt;p&gt;(btw, the &amp;quot;Power Move One – Conditionals&amp;quot; anchor seems to be broken)&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gabrielgambetta.com&amp;#x2F;tgs-open-source.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gabrielgambetta.com&amp;#x2F;tgs-open-source.html&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>I self-published a paperback and eBook using LaTeX and Pandoc</title><url>http://theroadchoseme.com/how-i-self-published-a-professional-paperback-and-ebook-using-latex-and-pandoc/?1</url></story>