Took a bit of searching, but here's a previous discussion which you may find helpful. Someone is writing a book and using ruby and git to handle the formatting:

Took a bit of searching, but here's a previous discussion which you may find helpful. Someone is writing a book and using ruby and git to handle the formatting: http://chrismdp.github.com/2010/11/how-im-writing-my-book-using-git-and-ruby/ http://chrismdp.github.com/2010/11/how-im-writing-my-book-us... HN discussion: http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=1861133 http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=1861133