PublishJockey runs your manuscript through the same XeLaTeX pipeline academic typesetters use — publisher-grade structure, spacing, and pagination — without you touching a single LaTeX command.
Most academic formatting advice still points you at raw LaTeX templates or fighting Word’s style panel. PublishJockey runs every manuscript through a XeLaTeX/Pandoc pipeline automatically — the same typesetting engine behind properly formatted academic books, without you writing a single \command.
Chapters, front matter (title page, copyright, table of contents), and back matter are kept as distinct, reorderable sections — so the same manuscript structure that got you through committee review exports cleanly as a real book.
Upload the Word document you already defended, or paste Markdown directly. No re-keying your dissertation into a new tool.
Re-export after every revision without waiting. Iterate on structure and formatting as many times as your committee (or your own second-guessing) requires.
Unpublished academic work is sensitive. PublishJockey processes your manuscript without third-party formatting services seeing your unreleased research.
Vellum and Atticus were built for trade fiction and nonfiction — neither markets dissertation- or citation-heavy academic formatting as a use case, and academic formatting guidance still generally points writers at raw LaTeX templates instead. PublishJockey gives you that typesetting quality through a plain upload-and-export workflow.
If you’ve looked at Vellum (Mac-only, $250) or Atticus ($147) for this, neither is built around academic structure — you’d still be fighting the same generic fiction/nonfiction templates.
Every book on our free samples page was formatted entirely with PublishJockey — real tables of contents, real typesetting, several live on Amazon right now.
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