Colophon — a Quarto + LaTeX scaffold for creating course books and technical handbooks

[meetharoon]

Description

I built Colophon to solve a handful of real book-publishing problems Quarto's defaults don't handle out of the box — a caption that actually shows up in the List of Tables, a wide table that rotates to landscape without wasting a page, an appendix that numbers itself "Appendix A" instead of continuing chapter numbers, and front/main/back matter that numbers pages correctly across all three.

It's a brand-agnostic starting point (colors/fonts/logo are all placeholders) that renders out of the box with zero setup, and comes with a full worked example in sample/.

Repo: https://github.com/belpub/colophon-quarto

Tested thoroughly against one real, full-length book — genuinely curious whether it holds up against other people's use cases, and happy to take issues if it doesn't.