Hugo is mostly used to generate web sites. For on of my collections I reused a Hugo website to generate a book from it.
Have a look here:
It’s done with a set of custom templates (tied to a output format) to generate a large HTML file and using VivlioStyle (and thus CSS for paged media) for the layout (and other things like the TOC).
Thanks for sharing!
Now that the pipelines are in place, can you smoothly update your Hugo blog and publish an updated PDF?
Which manual steps do you have to handle?
Yes, its completely automated: different sections from the web site are mapped to book sections. Posts are the main part, a special catalogue setting is responsible for the frame (like front page, preface, text contents, blank pages and so on). So publishing a new post will result in a new book.
There are no manual steps, if you just see the book as a simple sequece of pages. But a rela book is more then that, there are some rules like having a start of a chapter always on a right side. This might create a requirement of blank pages. then there is the requirement that a TOC should always fit a the page, this required adjustments to the font size.
Both things are certainly also possible automate, but that was to much effort for this project.