T_EXB_RE_W

An attempt to make good-looking homebrew documents for various roleplaying systems (currently only D&D 5e), using X_ƎT_EX for typesetting.

Unless otherwise specified, all documents are released under the WTFPLv2. See the COPYING file for more details.

Some of the assets are released under different licenses. See the CREDITS.tex files for more details.

Motivation

Why create something like this? Well, T_EX was made to typeset documents with perfection. As such, it takes care of difficult things such as:

• Correct page layout (left/right pages have different margins, chapters always open on a right page, etc.);
• Handling page breaks properly (even with multi-column text);
• Handling floating things (narrow or wide) and placing them appropriately;
• Keeping track of things (table of contents, references, appendices, etc.);
• Good pagination, marks, etc;
• And many other things we don't even think about (like autoadjusting spaces to avoid widows and orphans).

Why use X_ƎT_EX ? For one, it is modern (unicode support out of the box) and makes it easy to use custom OpenType fonts (with fontspec).

Demos

• For D&D 5e: https://artefact2.gitlab.io/texbrew/dnd-5e/skel.pdf (draft version)

Usage

To compile the demo document:

cd dnd-5e
make skel.pdf
# Or: make draft-skel.pdf for a draft version (faster, no graphics)

To start your own document:

cd dnd-5e
cp skel.tex mybook.tex
$EDITOR mybook.tex
make mybook.pdf
# Or: make draft-mybook.pdf

Todo

• art overlays (under tables, etc.)
• fix XXXs
• fix bugs