{\XeTeX\ Book Template}
{Shakthi Kannan}
{The \XeTeX\ Book Template is a free software framework for authors to
publish multilingual books using \XeTeX. You can write the content in
\GNU\ Emacs Org-mode files along with \TeX, and the build scripts will
generate the book in \PDF. The Org-mode files are exported to \TeX\ files,
and Emacs Lisp post-processing is done prior to \PDF\ generation. Babel
support with Org-mode \TeX\ blocks allows one to selectively export
content as needed. The framework separates content from presentation.

A style file exists for specifying customized page titles, setting
margins, font specification, chapter title and text formatting, page
style, spacing etc. The framework has been used to publish books
containing Tamil, Sanskrit and English. It is released under the \MIT\
license and available at
\url{https://gitlab.com/shakthimaan/xetex-book-template}. In this
talk, I will explain the salient features of the \XeTeX\ Book
Template, and also share my experience in creating and publishing
books using the framework.}