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Biggest problem of mdBook is the lack of the good PDF and ePub export[1]. This is why Quarto[2] (based on pandoc) is a better choice if you need both online and
by xvilka 10mo ago
Biggest problem of mdBook is the lack of the good PDF and ePub export[1]. This is why Quarto[2] (based on pandoc) is a better choice if you need both online and offline rendered documentation/text. And Typst (or LaTeX for more conservative folks) for the offline documentation/articles/books.
[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/issues/815 https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/issues/815
[2] https://quarto.org/ https://quarto.org/
- juliangmp 10mo agoI get where you're coming from but I'm not sure if PDF generation was a goal for mdbook to begin with. I'm pretty sure they're working on it now, but I'd stick to a domain specific tool, personally I find typst excellent to generate documents for prints. For simple HTML docs mdbook is also excellent. I don't know if you could combine these two domains into one tool nicely. To me they're just too different. although I have made presentations with mdbook using custom written preprocessors and a custom renderer (all of which were extremely crude, but did the job)
- xvilka 10mo agoQuarto handles both beautifully, just look at their gallery[1]. [1] https://quarto.org/docs/gallery/ https://quarto.org/docs/gallery/