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The Wide Lawns

We shall not cease from exploration.

They came down through the orchard in the last of the light, and the grass was already wet. Nobody spoke about the letter. It had been read aloud twice at lunch and there was nothing further in it that a third reading would find.1

The path bent left at the wall and then ran straight for a hundred yards under the limes, which had been planted close and had grown into one another, so that walking beneath them was like walking along a corridor with a green ceiling. At the end of the limes there was a gate, and beyond the gate the ground fell away sharply to the river.

She had come this way every evening that summer, and could have walked it in the dark, and more than once had. A gardener passed below the window with a barrow, and the sound of the wheel on the gravel came up thinly, as if from much further away.

The letter was from the county council, and it concerned the orchard: the road was to be widened in the spring, the wall would have to come down, and the compensation offered was less than half of what the trees were worth to anybody who had ever picked their fruit. She read it a third time by the kitchen window, and the light was going, and the words stayed exactly as unkind as they had been at noon.

“They can’t take the limes,” he said that night, and put his knife down before he had finished eating. “They can take the wall. A wall is only a wall. But the limes were planted by her grandfather, and a tree is not a fence.”

She said nothing, because he was right in the way that did not help, and because the council’s letter had not asked anyone’s opinion of trees. It had asked for a signature, and the signature had a date beside it, and the date was the ninth of March.

The Wide Lawns · Your name here

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The left half is a real Word file —download manuscript.docxand picture yours in its place.

Exports to the specification of the shop you are publishing to

  • Amazon KDP
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  • PDFprint-ready, with bleed and trim
  • EPUB 3reflowable, valid
  • Kindlechecked against KDP

Eighteen designs. Click one and your book takes it.

Every spread below is a real export: the same manuscript, typeset by the same engine that will set your book, at the trim size the design is drawn for. Pick the one you want to start from. Nothing in it is locked afterwards.

Hand-set trade typography: a Goudy old style, small-caps chapter titles, a fleuron and a three-line initial.

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Chapter OneThe Wide Lawns

We shall not cease from exploration.

T. S. Eliot

The Wide Lawns
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They came down through the orchard in thelast of the light, and the grass was already wet.Nobody spoke about the letter. It had been readaloud twice at lunch and there was nothing further in itthat a third reading would find.

The path bent left at the wall and then ran straight fora hundred yards under the limes, which had been plantedclose and had grown into one another, so that walkingbeneath them was like walking along a corridor with agreen ceiling. At the end of the limes there was a gate, andbeyond the gate the ground fell away sharply to the river,which at that hour was the only bright thing in the valley.

Clare walked ahead, as she always did, and her fathercame behind with his hands pushed into his pockets andhis collar up, though it was not cold. He had not spo‐ken since the gate. It was the particular silence he kept forthings he had already decided and did not intend to dis‐cuss, and she had learned to walk inside it without askingquestions.

She had come this way every evening that summer, andcould have walked it in the dark, and more than once had.A gardener passed below the window with a barrow, andthe sound of the wheel on the gravel came up thinly, as iffrom much further away.

1The house was sold the following spring.↩

Vellum · 5.5″ × 8.5″ · typeset by Nueel from the sample manuscript

The part a copy-editor would charge you for.

Every screen below is Nueel working on the whole of War and Peace — five hundred and sixty-three thousand words. The counts are real counts.

Consistency

It finds where your book disagrees with itself.

It counts both sides of every choice the manuscript makes — burnt or burned, organise or organize, serial comma or none — and shows you the losing side. Fix one occurrence or all eighty-six. Name Chicago or New Hart's Rules and it holds to it.

Around forty rules, three spelling traditions — American, British and Oxford — and it counts what you do right as well as what you do twice.

The Style panel: a stepper reading one of eighty-six, showing burnt corrected to burned with a note that the rest of the book does this fifty-one times, over the repeated-spaces rule and its count.

Typography

Typewriter marks become book marks.

Straight quotes pair up, double hyphens become dashes, three dots an ellipsis — in your book's own language. A French book gets guillemets with the narrow spaces inside them, a German one its low opening quotes. You see the first line that would change, and the count for every substitution, before it touches a word.

Five languages. Running it twice changes nothing, and one undo takes the whole book back.

The quotation-marks dialog: one sentence of the book shown as it is now and as it would be, with the changed marks highlighted, over the first row of a table of substitutions counting 1,791 ellipses.

Readability

It reads a chapter back to you.

How hard the chapter is going, scored against the rest of your own book. How much of it is dialogue. Then the adverbs, the passives, the filler and the sentences a reader will take twice — marked in the manuscript, where you can fix them.

English only, for now. None of it is printed: the PDF and the EPUB carry no marks.

The Analysis panel: a reading-ease gauge at 71.3, grade 7, noting the chapter reads like the rest of the book, with words, reading time, sentence length and a dialogue share of 55 per cent.
The studio: a chapter of War and Peace with its adverbs, passive voice, filler and hard sentences highlighted in the prose, the chapter outline on the left and the Analysis panel on the right.
One workspace: the manuscript, what the reading found, and the book it is becoming.

And a good deal more.

  • Version history

    Every save, grouped by day. Restoring re-applies a version as a new edit, so nothing since is discarded.

  • Works on a plane

    Edits save to your own machine as you type; pagination and export run in the browser.

  • Search the whole book

    Every chapter at once. A result opens at the sentence, with its context around it.

  • Footnotes and endnotes

    Notes that split across a page break and renumber from where the call falls — at the foot of the page or gathered at the back.

  • Citations and bibliography

    Cite a source once and it appears in the bibliography, ordered and formatted.

  • Tables that break properly

    A table longer than a page carries its header row onto the next.

  • Images, and text around them

    In the flow, across the measure or full page, with text wrapped to the silhouette. Resolution checked before export.

  • Covers, front and back

    Designed beside the book, spine width derived from page count and paper. Change the book and it tells you the cover has gone stale.

  • A word-count goal

    One per chapter, filling up in the status bar beside the book's total.

  • Any face on Google Fonts

    Any family on Google Fonts, each checked for embedding rights before the PDF is written.

  • Hyphenation in your language

    Real hyphenation patterns, so justified text holds without rivers of white.

  • Nothing is sent away to be converted

    Pagination and export run in the browser; no third-party service ever sees the manuscript. Syncs to your own account, so the book follows you between machines.

From your Word file to a finished book, today.

No setup, no template to fill in, nothing to learn first. The whole of it happens in the browser tab you already have open.

  1. 1

    Open the file you already have

    The Word document you have been writing in, or Markdown. Nueel reads the structure you made — your headings become chapters, your italics stay italic — and shows you what it found before it changes a word. Half a million words open without freezing.

    2 minutes

    The Nueel library: a shelf of six books, each with a typeset cover, and the buttons to import another or start a new one.
  2. 2

    Pick a design

    Eighteen finished book designs, from literary fiction to academic. Click one and the whole manuscript takes it at once — every margin, every chapter opening, every running head. Keep it exactly as it comes, or change any measurement in it.

    5 minutes

    The formatting screen: a grid of complete book themes, each shown as a typeset page with its trim size, the one in use marked.
  3. 3

    Read it as a book

    Page through the real thing at the size it will print, as facing pages, or on a Kindle-shaped screen. This is the same engine that makes the file, so what you approve here is what the printer receives.

    as long as you like

    The preview: two facing pages of War and Peace at 5.5 by 8.5 inches, with running heads, folios and justified text, over a status bar reading three thousand and nine pages.
  4. 4

    Send it to the shop

    A print-ready PDF, an EPUB and a Word file — each one checked against your shop's own requirements, with the page number of anything wrong, before it leaves your machine. KDP, IngramSpark, Apple Books and Kobo.

    1 minute

    The export screen: PDF, EPUB, DOCX and HTML, a shop to check against, and a list of findings each linking to the field that fixes it.

And you can change all of it.

A design is a starting point you are never locked into. Every measurement in the book is yours to change, from the trim size and the typeface down to the tracking on a chapter title and the ornament between two scenes. Change one thing or rebuild the whole design; the book repaginates as you go.

Set the book in any family on Google Fonts, on top of the faces that ship with it. Save what you built as your own theme and set your next book in it in one click.

  • Any trim size, or your own
  • Margins, gutters, binding allowance
  • Typeface, size, leading, tracking
  • Drop caps and small caps
  • Five chapter-opening styles
  • Running heads and page numbers
  • Scene-break ornaments
  • Hyphenation and justification
  • Any Google Fonts family, checked for embedding
  • Saved as a reusable theme
Nueel's formatting screen: every typographic control on the left, with a live specimen of the book updating beside it.

It does not get slow at chapter twelve.

Book software usually starts fast and ends up making you wait on every keystroke. Nueel is developed against War and Peace — all of it — and these are the numbers the layout engine produces on an ordinary laptop. The same engine runs in your browser; nothing is sent to a server to be paginated.

3,009pages
the whole of War and Peace, typeset
3.5seconds
to lay out every one of them, from cold
39ms
to page the book again after you edit it
563,542words
open at once, scrolling continuously

Buy it once. It stays yours.

A formatter charges $300 to $1,000 for one book. Nueel costs less than that once, and it sets every book you write from here on.

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  • The studio, in your browser — Mac, Windows, Linux or Chromebook, nothing to install
  • All 18 book designs, and unlimited themes of your own
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  • Unlimited books — no per-title fee, ever
  • Version history, automatic backups, and offline work
  • Every future update, automatically — there is one version, and it is always the newest

What the money covers, and the full pricing FAQ

Before you buy

Will Amazon KDP accept what it exports?+

That is what the export checks are for. Before a file leaves, Nueel verifies trim size, bleed, margins, embedded fonts and image resolution against the requirements of the shop you are publishing to, and tells you on which page anything is wrong. KDP, IngramSpark, Apple Books and Kobo are covered.

Is it a subscription?+

No. $104.25 once (25% off launch price, normally $139), and it is yours — every book you ever format from it. A subscription would put your manuscript behind a monthly payment, and a formatter that can hold your book hostage is the wrong shape for something whose first promise is that you never lose anything.

I already spent weeks formatting in Word. Is that wasted?+

No. Nueel reads the structure you already made: your headings become chapters, your italics stay italic, your scene breaks are recognised as scene breaks. What it discards is Word's visual formatting, which is the part you want replaced.

Do I need to know anything about typography?+

No. The 18 designs are complete and finished; picking one is the entire required workflow. Everything else is there when you want it and stays out of the way when you do not.

Can I try it before I pay?+

There is no trial account — but the home page is not a mock-up either. The before-and-after at the top is a real Word file you can download and the exact book Nueel makes of it, and every design specimen was typeset by the same engine that will set your book. Look at what it does before you decide; the fourteen-day refund does the rest.

Do I need an internet connection?+

Not to work. Every edit is saved on your own machine as you make it, and pagination and export run in your browser — you can format an entire book on a plane. You need the network to sign in, to load the app the first time, and to reach version history older than the last few hours.

How big a book can it handle?+

It is developed against War and Peace — 563,542 words, 3,009 typeset pages — which lays out in about three and a half seconds and re-pages in forty milliseconds after an edit. Your book is almost certainly smaller.

What about my fonts and images?+

Any family on Google Fonts, on top of the faces that ship with the app, and each is checked for embedding rights before the PDF is made. Images and manuscript sync to your own account so the book follows you between machines; nothing is handed to a third-party conversion service.

How to get a refund, and the questions that arrive after you buy, are on the FAQ.

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