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This is an interesting use of static site generators. If you are interested in the (Markdown content -> publishable format) pipeline, take a look at Pandoc. Ul

This is an interesting use of static site generators. If you are interested in the (Markdown content -> publishable format) pipeline, take a look at Pandoc. Ultimately this is more developer-oriented however.

themodelplumber 7y ago
I recently published a simple book using Markdown and Pandoc. It went OK but I think next time I'll try ASCIIDoc due to what I recall as "extra features which would have been nice."
- asicsp 7y ago
  I use markdown to pdf flow with pandoc+xelatex. Found a few tex code on stackexchange sites and current setting is good enough for me, made a blog post too [1] There's also a latex template I've bookmarked [2] - I haven't tried yet, but sample on the repo looks nice [1] https://learnbyexample.github.io/tutorial/ebook-generation/customizing-pandoc/ https://learnbyexample.github.io/tutorial/ebook-generation/c... [2] https://github.com/Wandmalfarbe/pandoc-latex-template https://github.com/Wandmalfarbe/pandoc-latex-template
Tarq0n 7y ago
https://bookdown.org/ https://bookdown.org/ is an r implementation of this toolchain that's been used to make some great looking books.
- amrrs 7y ago
  Bookdown is amazing. Makes it possible to publish a book. https://blog.datascienceheroes.com/how-to-self-publish-a-book/ https://blog.datascienceheroes.com/how-to-self-publish-a-boo...
- suyash 7y ago
  I've been looking to write an interactive book - think of Apple Books but in HTML and this tool seems to do the job, only thing is that I don't know any R.
eslaught 7y ago
Pandoc is definitely the way to go in terms of ease of writing and the quality of the output. It's not super difficult to take Jekyll-ish input and generate books from it either, e.g. I built a tool to do this: https://bitbucket.org/elliottslaughter/bookmd https://bitbucket.org/elliottslaughter/bookmd Example of a book I published with this approach: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0692553916 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0692553916 (a fairly challenging type setting problem with lots of footnotes, foreign language, etc.) The main gotchas are that if you really want it to look good you have to dig into the Latex template, so ultimately it would take more effort to make it push-button for non-technical users.

themodelplumber 7y ago

I recently published a simple book using Markdown and Pandoc. It went OK but I think next time I'll try ASCIIDoc due to what I recall as "extra features which would have been nice."

asicsp 7y ago
I use markdown to pdf flow with pandoc+xelatex. Found a few tex code on stackexchange sites and current setting is good enough for me, made a blog post too [1] There's also a latex template I've bookmarked [2] - I haven't tried yet, but sample on the repo looks nice [1] https://learnbyexample.github.io/tutorial/ebook-generation/customizing-pandoc/ https://learnbyexample.github.io/tutorial/ebook-generation/c... [2] https://github.com/Wandmalfarbe/pandoc-latex-template https://github.com/Wandmalfarbe/pandoc-latex-template

Tarq0n 7y ago

https://bookdown.org/ https://bookdown.org/ is an r implementation of this toolchain that's been used to make some great looking books.

amrrs 7y ago
Bookdown is amazing. Makes it possible to publish a book. https://blog.datascienceheroes.com/how-to-self-publish-a-book/ https://blog.datascienceheroes.com/how-to-self-publish-a-boo...
suyash 7y ago
I've been looking to write an interactive book - think of Apple Books but in HTML and this tool seems to do the job, only thing is that I don't know any R.

eslaught 7y ago

Pandoc is definitely the way to go in terms of ease of writing and the quality of the output. It's not super difficult to take Jekyll-ish input and generate books from it either, e.g. I built a tool to do this: https://bitbucket.org/elliottslaughter/bookmd https://bitbucket.org/elliottslaughter/bookmd Example of a book I published with this approach: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0692553916 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0692553916 (a fairly challenging type setting problem with lots of footnotes, foreign language, etc.) The main gotchas are that if you really want it to look good you have to dig into the Latex template, so ultimately it would take more effort to make it push-button for non-technical users.