Low-Content Books With Typst
Low-content books are books with minimal written content. These books are designed to be filled in by the user, and often feature repetitive or interactive elements, such as journals, planners, log books, sheet music, and more.
However, creating such a book can be challenging, especially if you want to produce a high-quality and professional-looking product. You need to consider the layout, design, formatting, and printing of your book, as well as the market demand and competition.
Typst is a powerful and free document preparation system that can help you create high quality low-content books with ease. This blog-post shows how a low-content book can be generated from scratch.
- Create a draft with LibreOffice.
- Open a terminal window and navigate to the directory where the ODT file is saved and use the following command:
pandoc -f odt -t typst -o my_lowcontent_book.typ my_lowcontent_book.odt - Edit the resulting Typst file (my_lowcontent_book.typ) to make any necessary changes to the layout.
- Compile the source code of the notebook with Typst, run the following command in the terminal:
typst compile my_lowcontent_book.typ - This command will compile the Typst source code and generate a PDF file that can be uploaded.
Weekly Planner Notebook
This weekly planner notebook has been created with Typst, as previously described. It can help you stay organized and productive throughout the year, each week is laid out on two pages, with space for a to-do list section and a note section for each day of the week.
Unlike traditional planners, this notebook is undated and you can start using it at any time of the year without wasting pages. It follows the ISO 8601 week date system, where each week is uniquely identified by its year and week number (e.g., 2023-W46).
Available for purchase on Amazon.