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  • htmlbook2pdf

    GitBook to PDF

  • KeenWrite

    • I developed KeenWrite[0] with similar ideas to mdbook: typeset into PDF from Markdown. Technically, this happens in three stages. First, the Markdown is converted to XHTML. Second, the XHTML is converted to TeX commands. Third, the ConTeXt typesetting system produces a PDF file. Both the GUI and CLI can export to PDF.[1]

    Like mdbook, the themes are isolated. Instead of CSS, KeenWrite themes are written in ConTeXt. There are several example starter themes.[2] A "thesis" theme would be a nice addition, but there's a problem.

    Markdown lacks a standard for cross-references and citations. An open KeenWrite issue animates a possible UX solution.[3] The topic of references/citations has been discussed on CommonMark[4] without much movement. Parsing cross-references and citations would benefit flexmark-java[5] integrations. KeenWrite uses flexmark-java, but I'm otherwise unaffiliated. If anyone is interested in helping, reach out (see profile).

    [0]: https://keenwrite.com/

    [1]: https://gitlab.com/DaveJarvis/KeenWrite/-/blob/main/docs/cmd...

    [2]: https://gitlab.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite-themes/

    [3]: https://gitlab.com/DaveJarvis/KeenWrite/-/issues/145

    [4]: https://talk.commonmark.org/t/cross-references-and-citations...

    [5]: https://github.com/vsch/flexmark-java

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • keenwrite-themes

    • I developed KeenWrite[0] with similar ideas to mdbook: typeset into PDF from Markdown. Technically, this happens in three stages. First, the Markdown is converted to XHTML. Second, the XHTML is converted to TeX commands. Third, the ConTeXt typesetting system produces a PDF file. Both the GUI and CLI can export to PDF.[1]

    Like mdbook, the themes are isolated. Instead of CSS, KeenWrite themes are written in ConTeXt. There are several example starter themes.[2] A "thesis" theme would be a nice addition, but there's a problem.

    Markdown lacks a standard for cross-references and citations. An open KeenWrite issue animates a possible UX solution.[3] The topic of references/citations has been discussed on CommonMark[4] without much movement. Parsing cross-references and citations would benefit flexmark-java[5] integrations. KeenWrite uses flexmark-java, but I'm otherwise unaffiliated. If anyone is interested in helping, reach out (see profile).

    [0]: https://keenwrite.com/

    [1]: https://gitlab.com/DaveJarvis/KeenWrite/-/blob/main/docs/cmd...

    [2]: https://gitlab.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite-themes/

    [3]: https://gitlab.com/DaveJarvis/KeenWrite/-/issues/145

    [4]: https://talk.commonmark.org/t/cross-references-and-citations...

    [5]: https://github.com/vsch/flexmark-java

  • flexmark-java

    CommonMark/Markdown Java parser with source level AST. CommonMark 0.28, emulation of: pegdown, kramdown, markdown.pl, MultiMarkdown. With HTML to MD, MD to PDF, MD to DOCX conversion modules.

    • I developed KeenWrite[0] with similar ideas to mdbook: typeset into PDF from Markdown. Technically, this happens in three stages. First, the Markdown is converted to XHTML. Second, the XHTML is converted to TeX commands. Third, the ConTeXt typesetting system produces a PDF file. Both the GUI and CLI can export to PDF.[1]

    Like mdbook, the themes are isolated. Instead of CSS, KeenWrite themes are written in ConTeXt. There are several example starter themes.[2] A "thesis" theme would be a nice addition, but there's a problem.

    Markdown lacks a standard for cross-references and citations. An open KeenWrite issue animates a possible UX solution.[3] The topic of references/citations has been discussed on CommonMark[4] without much movement. Parsing cross-references and citations would benefit flexmark-java[5] integrations. KeenWrite uses flexmark-java, but I'm otherwise unaffiliated. If anyone is interested in helping, reach out (see profile).

    [0]: https://keenwrite.com/

    [1]: https://gitlab.com/DaveJarvis/KeenWrite/-/blob/main/docs/cmd...

    [2]: https://gitlab.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite-themes/

    [3]: https://gitlab.com/DaveJarvis/KeenWrite/-/issues/145

    [4]: https://talk.commonmark.org/t/cross-references-and-citations...

    [5]: https://github.com/vsch/flexmark-java

  • wkhtmltopdf-windows

    wkhtmltopdf - Convert html to pdf using webkit (qtwebkit). Windows binaries

    • In 2014 we used wkhtmltopdf[0] to generate PDF copies of Cloudfoundry docs for every version every release, and maybe that's what I'd reach for now. Not sure if Qt WebKit has similar limits as Chromium.

    Not that you asked, but I am sitting here silently judging whoever let those pages get that large. Enough html to cap out RAM? Chesterton's Fence dictates that I presume your upstream's hands were tied, but wowee!

    0. https://wkhtmltopdf.org/

  • pandoc

    Universal markup converter

    • Pandoc generally works just fine: https://pandoc.org/

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