I'm not a Python guy so never worked with Sphinx and never really heard of anyone using it for something like a book. It looks like it suffers from the same pro

I'm not a Python guy so never worked with Sphinx and never really heard of anyone using it for something like a book. It looks like it suffers from the same problems that MD suffers from. Building a markup language is really easy. That's why we have so many and multiple independent implementations of markdown. The problem is that last mile to get production and mostly printing right. That's super hard and even asciidoctor doesn't get it perfectly. These Manning does use asciidoc for writing, it's great for that. But when you need to create a book they move it to docbook and then typeset using the traditional typesetting programs. Despite all the work it's 95% of the way for the sublime book experience. I'd say every other alternative is 90% of the way at best. To get a sense of what you need to do to create a professional book without that typesetting work check out this post https://medium.com/sketch-app-sources/using-sketch-and-asciidoc-to-generate-a-professional-tech-book-ef5b5d8dd410 https://medium.com/sketch-app-sources/using-sketch-and-ascii...