This is a haskell package intended to provide the tools to write a book for Manning Publications. Some of the utilities in this package rely on downloading dependencies from Manning Publications. This will be performed when a dependency is required. If it is already downloaded, it will not be downloaded again.

Included in this package are six executables:

1. manning-book-pdf

   Generates the PDF output file for your book using Manning's AAMakePDF tool.

2. manning-book-validate

   Validates your book using Manning's AAValidator tool.

3. manning-book-conf

   Prints out the current configuration unless passed the --set-config argument, in which case, the default configuration is written to the configuration file. This file is located at ~/.manning-book. WARNING If you pass --set-config, this will overwrite any existing configuration file, but since you keep that file in revision control (right?), you'll be fine.

4. manning-book-spellcheck

   Uses aspell to spell-check your book. If you pass the --non-interactive argument, you will not be prompted to correct any errors as is usual.

5. manning-book-init

   Downloads all dependencies and sets up files for spell-checking

   • The file to specify elements which should be not be checked for spelling errors. For example, <programlisting> elements probably shouldn't be spell-checked because they contain source code.
   • The file to specify words to ignore during spell-checking. You are likely to be writing about a specialised domain, which includes words that may not appear in a standard dictionary. Running manning-book-spellcheck will add these words when you do interactive spell-checking.

   Note that none of these operations are essential, since these spell-checking files will be set up at first spell-check and dependencies will be downloaded when required anyway.

6. manning-book-clean

   Deletes all bilt artifacts of the book, which is essentially only the PDF. Note that the entire directory will be deleted. If you pass the --all argument, the dependencies will also be deleted and so wil be downloaded again when required.