Documentation
Everything Nueel does, in the order you meet it. If you have a manuscript and twenty minutes, start with your first book.
Getting started
Open the manuscript you already have, and see a book come out of it.
Writing
The manuscript itself: how a book is divided into sections, and what you can put on a page besides prose.
- The writing screenThe outline, the manuscript and the panels: what each column is, and the panels that show you where a line falls, how it reads, and where the book disagrees with itself.
- StructureSections, roles, and the three divisions of a book. How to add, reorder, split and merge them.
- BlocksEvery kind of thing you can put on a page besides prose: quotes, verse, callouts, tables, images, definition lists and page breaks.
- Reading and revisionReadability scores, consistency checks against the book's own habits or a named style guide, and converting quotation marks.
Designing the book
Themes, and the panels that move what a theme decided. Trim size, margins, type, chapter openings.
- ThemesThe eighteen built-in book designs, how choosing one changes the whole book, and how to save a design of your own.
- Page and marginsTrim size, the four margins, and bleed. Why the inside margin grows with the page count, and when you need bleed at all.
- TextTypeface, size, line spacing, alignment, hyphenation and first-line indent — the six settings that decide how the prose reads.
- Chapter openingsThe most looked-at page in the book: chapter numbers, drop caps, sinkage, ornaments and scene breaks.
- Heads and foliosWhat runs along the top and bottom of every page: running heads, page numbers, where the numbering restarts, and which pages carry neither.
- ColourThe book's inks, what they paint, and what colour costs per copy.
- PreviewThe whole book laid out page by page, on paper or on a device — and what to look for before you export.
Typography
What the book is doing to your text, why it does it, and when you should overrule it.
Exporting
Which file each shop wants, what every format can and cannot carry, and how to read the checks before you upload.
- Book detailsTitle, authors, publisher, ISBN, blurb and cover — what a shop matches your book against, and which fields block a listing.
- ExportingThe five files the studio writes, which shop takes which, and the ink and press options that change what a PDF costs to print.
- The export checkWhat is checked before a file is written, what each finding means, and which ones a shop will actually refuse.
Reference
Tables and lists to come back to.
- What every format carriesWhich parts of your design survive into a PDF, an EPUB, a Word file and Markdown — and what happens instead when one cannot.
- Working offlineWhere your book is stored, what the save indicator is telling you, and the one state worth acting on.
- Keyboard shortcutsEvery shortcut in the studio, in one table.
This manual covers the application. For how publishing itself works — trim sizes, ISBNs, what KDP asks for and why — see the publishing guides.