Sample book
A book bukpress actually exported
The Quiet Hour is eight A4 pages, written as one Markdown file and exported straight out of bukpress with nothing touched afterwards. It is the honest version of a demo: no sign-up, no watermark, and the same renderer every export on every plan goes through.
What to look at
Anyone can show you a nice cover. The things that separate a typeset book from a printed web page are further in, so those are the pages worth opening:
- The page breaks — where a section ends and the next one starts on a fresh page, because the file said so rather than because the text ran out.
- The table, set as a real table rather than as aligned text — and repeating its header row if it ever crosses a page.
- The image that holds its place in the flow rather than floating off to wherever there was room.
- The type: embedded in the file, so it renders the same on a machine that has never had those families installed.
- The margins and the measure — how long the lines are, and how much room the page is given to breathe.
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How it was made
The whole book is one .md file. Headings set the structure, a line of --- forces each page break, a line of ---- prints the ornamental rules between scenes, and single line breaks stay where they were typed. The design — typefaces, sizes, colours, paper, margins in points — was set once in the editor and saved as a Brand Kit.
That is the entire process. There was no layout step, because there isn't one: the PDF and the EPUB come out of the same file and the same settings.
| You write | You get |
|---|---|
# / ## / ### | Headings, styled from your title and body type settings and used as the document's structure in both exports. |
**bold** / *italic* | Bold and italic, in the real weights of whichever family you picked — not a synthesised slant. |
- item / 1. item | Bulleted and numbered lists, indented to the same measure as the body text. |
| a | b | | Tables. If one runs past the bottom of a page, the header row repeats on the next page instead of orphaning the data. |
```code``` | Fenced code blocks, set in a monospace face and kept whole rather than broken mid-block where it can be avoided. |
 | Images, placed in the flow and held on the page they belong to. |
--- on its own line | A hard page break. This is the one every other Markdown-to-PDF tool makes you fake with raw HTML or CSS. |
---- on its own line | A printed divider — the small ornamental rule between scenes or sections. |
A single Enter | A real line break, the way you meant it. Standard Markdown swallows single newlines; for poetry, addresses and verse that is the wrong answer. |
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