I've written three books now with Markdown (in emacs), and I love it. The simplicity makes it very easy to focus on the content and export in diverse ways (whic

I've written three books now with Markdown (in emacs), and I love it. The simplicity makes it very easy to focus on the content and export in diverse ways (which I find important for editing). My stack is: - Markdown mode in terminal emacs - Pandoc export with .emacs script or shell script for books with chapters in separate files - Zotero with BibLaTex to manage .bib file - Git for version control This has worked beautifully for three trade books and one academic one. The only sad part is when we shift from writing and revising to copyediting, when I have to edit the press's track changes in LibreOffice.