The Project Gutenberg RST Manual

For the devoted volunteers who power Project Gutenberg's mission to make literature freely available, this manual is the essential roadmap from plain text to polished eBook. Written for contributors who want to format texts using PG-RST (Project Gutenberg's dialect of ReStructuredText), it walks through the complete pipeline: installing EpubMaker, structuring documents with proper classes and extensions, handling metadata that helps readers discover books, and testing across multiple output formats including HTML, EPUB, and PDF. The practical focus is unmistakable. Every chapter addresses real problems volunteers face when converting public domain works into digital formats that render cleanly on any device. Pagination, table of contents, inline formatting, tables. These are the unglamorous details that determine whether an eBook feels professional or falls apart on a Kindle. This manual ensures the former.