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Toggle Menu Primary Navigation Home Read Sign in Search in book: Search Want to create or adapt books like this? Learn more about how Pressbooks supports open publishing practices. Book Title: Pressbooks User Guide Author: Pressbooks Book Description: Welcome to the Pressbooks User Guide! Find answers for common questions you may have while writing and publishing your book with Pressbooks Create. License: Creative Commons Attribution Read Book Share on Twitter Contents Show All Contents Hide All Contents Book Contents Navigation Introduction to Pressbooks Why Use Pressbooks? About This Guide The Simple 5 Step Guide to Making a Book with Pressbooks Create Your Book Add Your Book Information Add and Organize Your Text Choose Your Book Theme Export Your Book Manage Your Account Register for a Pressbooks.pub Account Register Your Account Register Your First Book Upgrade Your Pressbooks.pub Book What’s Included When You Upgrade Premium Support Update Billing Information or Cancel Subscription Change Your Password Changing Your Password When You Can’t Log In Changing Your Password When You’re Already Logged In Update Your User Profile Personal Options Name Contact Info About Yourself Account Management Erase Your Personal Data Delete a Book The Authoring Dashboard Organize Navigating the Organize Menu Adding a new section Editing, Viewing, and Reordering Sections Book Privacy and Exporting Related Chapters Book Info General Book Information Cover Image Subject Copyright About the Book Additional Catalog Information Book-level Contributors Appearance Selecting Your Book Theme Theme Options Custom Styles Export Select Content for Export Export Your Book Files Export your Book as as Pressbooks XML file Export Your Book as a Common Cartridge File Viewing Your Latest Exports Distributing Your Exported Files on the Web Import Publish Media Adding media to your Library Adding details to your media Editing Images Deleting media Users Adding Users and Assigning Permissions Managing Users and Changing Permissions User Roles in Pressbooks Settings Change the Visibility of Your Book Change the Visibility of Private Content Enable Comments Share Latest Export Files Pressbooks Directory Export File Settings Hypothesis H5P MathJax or QuickLaTeX Akismet Anti-Spam My Catalog What is the Catalog? Using the Catalog Customizing your Catalog Profile Make Your Book What Is a Webbook? How a Webbook is Made The Webbook Homepage The Pressbooks Reading Interface Webbook Interactivity – Pressbooks Why Create a Webbook? Bring Your Content Into Pressbooks Write Your Book Directly in Pressbooks Copy and Paste from Another Source Import from a Word Document Import from a Pressbooks XML file Find Books on the Pressbooks Directory Search the Directory Filter Directory Results Book Cards Clone a Book Clone a Book Understand Cloning Error Messages What Content is Cloned Enable Source Comparison in a Cloned Book View Source Comparison for a Cloned Book Create and Edit Front Matter Add New Front Matter Delete Front Matter Edit Front Matter Apply Front Matter Types Understand Front Matter Order in Exports Create and Edit Parts Add a New Part Delete a Part Edit or Rename a Part Make a Part ‘Invisible’ Changing the Part Label Create and Edit Chapters Add a Chapter Delete a Chapter Edit a Chapter: Chapter Types Status & Visibility Settings Using the Visual and Text Editors View, Compare, and Restore Revisions Chapter Metadata Owners Edit Chapter URL Discussion and Comments Changing the Chapter Label Create and Edit Back Matter Add New Back Matter Delete Back Matter Edit Back Matter Back Matter Types Understand Display Order in Export Files Indexes and Notes Control Your Book’s Privacy Settings Global Privacy Settings Chapter-level Privacy Settings Edit Content with the Visual & Text Editors Use the Visual Editor Use the Text Editor HTML Basics Write in Markdown Display Embedded Media Display Uploaded Media in Your Book Embed Content via oEmbed Embed iframes Use Embed and Media Shortcodes Insert H5P Activities Embedded Media in Exports Edit Images Edit Image Details Crop, Rotate, or Scale an Image Replace an Image in One Location Replace an Image Globally Create and Display Contributors Accessing the Contributors page Creating a New Contributor Contributor List Displaying Contributor Information Create and Display Glossary Terms Create a New Glossary Term Link to an Existing Term Create a Glossary List Add Footnotes or Chapter Endnotes Add Footnotes Choose Where To Display Footnotes in PDF Exports Convert Footnotes from Imported Documents Create Tables Add or Delete Tables Using the Visual Editor Edit Table Structure Make Table Accessible Change Table Appearance Adjust Table Width and Height Change Border Weight Add a Table Caption Create Interactive Tables Add TablePress Tables to a Chapter Create Textboxes Add Textboxes to Your Book Customize Your Textbox Colors Add Mathematical Notation Display LaTeX with MathJax Display AsciiMath with MathJax Display MathML with MathJax Render LaTeX with WP QuickLaTeX Render LaTeX in H5P Activities Use Math in TablePress Enable Annotation with Hypothesis Enable Hypothesis in Your Book Create Interactive Content with H5P Create H5P Activities Import H5P Activities Add H5P Activities to Your Book View All H5P Activities in Your Book Use Shortcodes Headings and subheadings Code Email Equation/Latex Blockquote Footnote Anchor Textbox Columns Media Captions Apply Custom Classes Nesting Shortcodes Make Your Book Accessible and Inclusive Publish Accessible Content Use Accessibility Features Provided By Pressbooks Help Translate Pressbooks Fix Common Formatting Problems Remove Unwanted Span Elements Heading Styles Blockquotes (and ) Non-indented Paragraphs Lists (Bulleted and Numbered) Add Relevant Metadata Improving Directory Metadata Support Multilingual Publications Set Your Book’s Language Add Language & Script Support Restore and Permanently Delete Content To restore Trashed Content To Permanently Delete Content Search & Replace Produce Exports Automatic Pages and Export-only Content Title Page Half-Title Page Copyright Notice Table of Contents Numeration and Running Content Apply Custom Styles Add Custom Styles What Changes are Possible View and Restore Previous Revisions Pressbooks Custom CSS Theme Apply Special Formatting Set Custom Indentation Rules for Selected Paragraphs Insert a Soft Return Disable Hyphenation for Specific Passages Change Tracking for a Selected Passage Create Section and Page Breaks in PDF Exports Change List Display Insert Pullquotes Add Dropcaps Make a Book Cover Change Your Webbook Cover Create a Marketing Cover for your Ebook Exports Create a Print-on-demand Book Cover Use the Pressbooks Cover Generator Produce Ebook (EPUB) Exports Select Your Ebook Theme Options Make and Download EPUB Exports Produce PDF Exports Export Your Book as a PDF Print PDF Cover Options Configure PDF Export Options Preview your PDF Export Fix Validation Errors Email Yourself Validation Logs Interpret EPUB Validation Logs Interpret PDF Validation Logs SASS Error Validation Logs Lock Your Theme Lock Your Theme Distribute Your Book Ready Your Files for Distribution Submit Your Book to an Ebook Marketplace or Printing Service Add ‘Buy’ Links to Your Book’s Home Page Pressbooks Guides and OER Resources OER Repositories and Directories Resources for OER Book Information Book Description The Pressbooks User Guide is your handbook for using Pressbooks effectively to produce books. This Guide covers the basics of Pressbooks, including how to quickly get a book into Pressbooks and out the other end as a beautifully designed webbook, ebook (EPUB), and print-ready PDF. Author Pressbooks License Pressbooks User Guide Copyright © 2024 by Pressbooks is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License , except where otherwise noted. Subject The Arts Click for more information Metadata Title Pressbooks User Guide Author Pressbooks License Pressbooks...