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This looks rather like an ebook written with pandoc[1]; if you don't mind, what prompted you to write your own rather than using an existing format? [1]: https

This looks rather like an ebook written with pandoc[1]; if you don't mind, what prompted you to write your own rather than using an existing format? [1]: https://pandoc.org/epub.html https://pandoc.org/epub.html

geraldbauer 7y ago
The new format is (way) easier / simpler and yes, you can use pandoc for markdown processing. If you create an online book than you can just use HTML & CSS e.g. a "standard" website or a webpage is a book. You should ask why the book industry created a new format, that is, EPUB :-). PS: That's also the direction the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) tries to go (but failed). See the upcoming https://www.w3.org/TR/wpub/ https://www.w3.org/TR/wpub/ recommendation / standard / spec trying to replace EPUB. Compare the book manifest of manuscripts with the book manifest of wpub to see what format keeps it simple. PPS: And to keep apple and oranges apart - FYI: pandoc is NOT a book format (it's a text processor), thus, you should compare Manuscripts to EPUB or the new WPUB.