~AT A GLANCE
The paid companion books, reference manuals, the zpwr encyclopedia, and four original novels — every figure below counted from the rendered deliverables in this repository.
Page Distribution — 4,280 pages
Reference: fusevm companion (217) + stryke companion (205) + stryke reference (1,253) + zshrs companion (208) + zshrs reference (202) + elisprs companion (219) + elisprs reference (40) + awkrs companion (194) + awkrs reference (16) + vimlrs companion (201) + vimlrs reference (59) + zmax companion (192) + zmax reference (81) + zpwr encyclopedia (231) + zterminal (54) + ztmux (119) + powerliners (108) + desktop-in-rust (97) + zwire (103) + inventions (15). Novels: THE STACK (106) + the Deep Time Trilogy (118 / 120 / 122).
~THE DELIVERABLES
Each row is a rendered, shippable product. Reference works are generated from the public source submodules under src/; the novels are hand-written narrative markdown. All share one toolchain: pandoc → lualatex with the cyberpunk theme.
| Deliverable | Kind | Pages | Formats |
|---|---|---|---|
| THE STACK | Novel — fantasy | 106 | md tex pdf html |
| THE COMPILED MIND | Novel — SF, Book One | 118 | md tex pdf html |
| THE WAKING FLEET | Novel — SF, Book Two | 120 | md tex pdf html |
| THE INHERITORS | Novel — SF, Book Three | 122 | md tex pdf html |
| fusevm — The Machine | Reference — book | 217 | md tex pdf |
| stryke — The Companion | Reference — book | 205 | md tex pdf |
| stryke — Reference | Reference — manual | 1,253 | html tex pdf |
| zshrs — The Companion | Reference — book | 208 | md tex pdf |
| zshrs — Reference | Reference — manual | 202 | html tex pdf |
| elisprs — The Companion | Reference — book | 219 | md tex pdf |
| elisprs — Reference | Reference — manual | 40 | html tex pdf |
| awkrs — The Companion | Reference — book | 194 | md tex pdf |
| awkrs — Reference | Reference — manual | 16 | html tex pdf |
| vimlrs — The Companion | Reference — book | 201 | md tex pdf |
| vimlrs — Reference | Reference — manual | 59 | html tex pdf |
| zmax — The Companion | Reference — book | 192 | md tex pdf |
| zmax — Reference | Reference — manual | 81 | md tex pdf |
| zpwr Encyclopedia | Reference — encyclopedia | 231 | md tex pdf |
| zterminal — The Companion | Companion — book-only | 54 | md tex pdf |
| ztmux — The Companion | Companion — book-only | 119 | md tex pdf |
| powerliners — The Companion | Companion — book-only | 108 | md tex pdf |
| Rewriting the Desktop in Rust | Companion — book-only | 97 | md tex pdf |
| zwire — The Companion | Companion — book-only | 103 | md tex pdf |
| Firsts — the Invention Ledger | Companion — book-only | 15 | md tex pdf |
| 24 deliverables | 4 novels + 20 companions & references | 4,280 | pdf + html + tex |
~THE NOVELS
THE STACK is a high-tech fantasy whose world is a literalization of the stack. The Deep Time Trilogy — The Compiled Mind → The Waking Fleet → The Inheritors — is its hard-SF sibling: a generation ship dying of the heat shed by an interpreted mind that forks a disposable process for every act, the compiled successor that replaces it, and the long work of making it outlast its maker.
| Title | Words | Pages | Chapters |
|---|---|---|---|
| THE STACK | 62,404 | 106 | 24 |
| THE COMPILED MIND | 66,046 | 118 | 24 |
| THE WAKING FLEET | 66,721 | 120 | 24 |
| THE INHERITORS | 67,937 | 122 | 24 |
| 4 novels | 263,108 | 466 | 96 |
~THE PIPELINE
One toolchain renders every deliverable, paid and reference alike.
pandoc → lualatex
Narrative markdown (or generated reference) in; book.{tex,pdf} out. extreport class with --top-level-division=chapter so each # heading becomes a neon \chapter page.
Cyberpunk theme
Shared palette across PDF and HTML: #05050A bg, neon cyan / magenta / pink / green. Orbitron headings, Share Tech Mono code, Arimo body — loaded per-glyph with a luaotfload fallback chain so no arrow or box-drawing glyph ever drops.
Overflow guards
fvextra breaklines, xurl, and a robust breakable \texttt keep code and long identifiers inside the margin. Build asserts zero overfull boxes on every book.
Web rendition
Each novel also ships a single-file book.html (book_html.sh, pandoc → html5) with the same theme embedded — same source, two outputs.
Versioned source
Reference content comes from the public source submodules under src/; bump a submodule and re-run the generators to rebuild a book against newer source. The novels carry an EDITION string instead of a crate version.
Guarded build
tests/run.sh guards the failure modes this repo has hit: a leak guard (no paid sources tracked in the public submodules), markdown hygiene, generator syntax, and — under BUILD=1 — zero overfull boxes and a page floor.