A manuscript is not yet a book.
Pagifex composes complex manuscripts into exact print interiors and EPUBs: footnotes, indexes, images, multiple scripts and all, with fine-press typography built for print-on-demand production.
Where templates stop.
A book-building tool flows plain prose into a plain page. Pagifex begins with the structures they cannot resolve.
Apparatus and footnotes
Critical notes, sigla, and a scholarly apparatus, set and numbered.
Indexes and cross-references
Working indexes and references that key to the composed pages.
Multiple scripts, right to left
Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and Ottoman Turkish, set with correct direction.
I too am untranslatable
Poetry and lineation
Verse whose lines and runovers keep their shape.
Illustrated non-fiction
Figures sized in the text block, with numbered captions and lists.
Memoirs, novels, private editions
The private book, made to be beautiful rather than solved.
Ten pages, before and after.
Each specimen is set from a public-domain text, beside the same words in a default tool.
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Drag to compare.
Move the blue rail to reveal the composed page beneath the default output. The private-book specimens are set from public-domain works that stand in for your own.
How Pagifex composes.
Manuscript to finished files, in four honest stages.
Receive
In: manuscript, images, notes, printer specification.
Interpret
Read: hierarchy, scripts, references, exceptional structures.
Compose
Out: a print interior and a reflowable EPUB.
Verify
Check: preflight, pagination, fonts, links, output package.
What you receive.
What Pagifex needs
The manuscript in an editable format, the images at usable resolution, and the printer or trim you are aiming for.
What stays yours
Your text, your rights, and the source files. Final editorial judgment is yours to approve.
Send it for assessment.
Tell us about the book. You will hear back from Pagifex, not a funnel.