I have made some printed books based on Project Gutenberg texts. One example:

What I ended up doing was importing the HTML version into Libre Office, saving it in the native format, adding styles, moving footnotes from the back of the texts to the bottoms of pages, etc. It was a lot of tedious work but the results were excellent.

I would like to make books like this from my own PG donations, which were done as RST files. I noticed that the PDF generated from my RST was surprisingly good. For one thing, the footnote were already at the bottoms of pages. There were things I didn't like about the PDF, but with a little work whatever generated it might make something suitable for publishing through Create Space, These are the kinds of changes I would make:

1. The page size should be 6" by 9", a standard trade paperback size.

2. The fonts should be larger, maybe 12 pt. I'd like to choose the fonts used, and add custom fonts for title pages, etc.

3. Margins should be suitable for Create Space (or whatever Amazon is calling it now).

I program computers for a living, so I could make these changes for myself with a few hints on what software is used to convert the RST to PDF format. I have found a utility that does that:

However, this does not give the result I want. It puts the footnotes at the end of the book, and there are other issues with it. The manual explains how to deal with some of them, but not the footnotes. So I am looking for some explanation of how the PG epub maker does this.

Thanks.

James Simmons