Since Books4Languages uses Pressbooks as base technology, this user guide will walk you through everything you can do with Pressbooks. Find answers for common questions you may have while building your books.
NOTE: Some of the functionalities may be different.
I. Manage Your Account
1. How to Publish a Book with Pressbooks
2. 5-Steps to Getting Started on Pressbooks
3. Register for a Pressbooks.com Account
II. The Authoring Dashboard
7. Pressbooks Author Dashboard Navigation
10. Upgrade your Pressbooks.com book
20. Adding Relevant Metadata for Directory
III. Making Your Book
21. Automatic Pages and Content
25. Table of Contents: Adding a Second Level
26. Book Covers for Ebooks and Print-on-Demand
32. Privacy Settings: Global and Chapter-level
IV. Parts and Chapters
35. Chapter Author and Subtitle
36. Numberless Chapters, Invisible Parts, and Customizable Section Labels
37. Collapsible Subsections for Webbook
V. Exports
39. Ebook (EPUB + Mobi) Exports
40. Customizing your Exports with Custom Styles
41. How to Copy a Book, Change Your Book’s URL, or Export and Import Pressbooks XML
VI. Getting Your Book Into Pressbooks
46. How to Get Your Book Into Pressbooks
47. Copy & Paste: Tried and True
48. Writing Directly in Pressbooks
51. The Importance of “Good Markup”
52. Common Formatting Problems in Pressbooks
VII. Special Formatting
53. Internal and External Hyperlinks
55. Paragraphs, Indents, No-indents and Poetry
56. Running Heads & Running Feet (PDF only)
58. Section Breaks, Page Breaks and Blank Pages
59. Typography: Tight and Loose Tracking
60. Left or Right Chapter Openings (for Print/PDF)
62. Widows, Orphans and Bottom Balancing
63. Changing the font-size and line-height in your PDF outputs
64. Changing Page Margins in PDF Exports
66. Adding Dropcaps to Your Book
71. Paginated Chapters in a Webbook
VIII. Media
72. Embedded Media & Interactive Content
73. Enabling and Using Lightboxes for Images
77. Media: Images & Best Practices
78. Supported Media Upload Formats
79. File Size and Storage Limits
IX. Educational Features and Uses
80. Pressbooks Guides and OER Repositories
81. Accessibility & Universal Design
82. Themes for Academic and Educational Texts
83. Creative Commons Licensing
87. Source Comparison for Cloned Books
90. Hypothesis for Webbook Annotation & Comments
91. Making File Exports Available for Download
94. Navigation & Internal Links
95. Footnotes and (Chapter) Endnotes
97. Open Educational Resource Repositories and Guides
98. Zotero Citations for Pressbooks Webbooks
99. Common Cartridge Files with Web Links
100. How to Use the Pressbooks Directory
101. How to Opt-out of the Pressbooks Directory
X. Third-Party Distribution
102. Publishing in the Kindle Store
103. Getting Your Book into Kobo
104. Get Your Book into Google and Nook
105. Need Help Publishing Your Ebook?