Guides for book authors
and proceedings editors
Practical knowledge from producing 30+ books and the proceedings of three IAHR conferences, written up so you can use it whether you use texlode or not.
Book publishing
LaTeX vs Word for book publishing: typography, quality, and when each wins
A practical comparison for book authors. Where LaTeX's typesetting quality pulls ahead, where Word is faster, and how WYSIWYG LaTeX editors are closing the gap.
Conference proceedings
How to build conference proceedings from Word submissions
The full path from a folder of camera-ready papers to a print-ready, page-numbered volume with a table of contents: what to collect, what breaks, and how to assemble it.
Most conference proceedings have PDF quality defects: industry report
Our research shows that blank equations, missing fonts, and non-searchable text are the norm, and almost no proceedings are archival-ready. What is going wrong, why, and how to fix it.
How to check PDF compliance for camera-ready papers
Page size, margins, font embedding, page count. The checks IEEE runs through PDF eXpress, done yourself with free tools, with the exact commands.
Word-exported PDFs can silently drop equations (and how to catch them)
Legacy Equation Editor objects render as blank space while every font checker reports the file as clean. In one proceedings volume we checked, roughly one paper in eight was affected.
How to register DOIs for conference proceedings without a publisher
Crossref membership, choosing a DOI suffix scheme, building the deposit XML, and the landing-page requirement most first-time depositors miss.
Accessible PDFs from LaTeX: PDF/UA and the EU Accessibility Act
Since June 2025, inaccessible digital publications have faced restrictions in EU markets, and 75% of scholarly PDFs fail every accessibility criterion. What PDF/UA requires and how to produce it from LaTeX.
Platform
Getting started: your first document
Five steps, from signing in to a finished PDF: the tutorial book, live preview, chapters, final files, and where to get help.
Export an e-book (EPUB)
Download an EPUB of your book, check it with EPUBCheck, and upload it to Kindle, Apple Books, Kobo and Draft2Digital.
Get notified at launch
texlode and Ready.Pub automate most of what these guides describe. Launching October 2026.