Coming soon: Publishing Beautiful Books with Markdown

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  • markdown

    :notebook_with_decorative_cover: A package for converting and rendering markdown documents in TeX (by Witiko)

  • For a conversion to an e-book, it is possible to take a trip through (La)TeX and TeX4ht, or use Pandoc, which is pretty good at converting from Markdown to HTML (better than between, say, HTML and LaTeX). We will cover all these aspects and more in our book, which itself will be written and typeset using the Markdown package.

  • novelWriter

    novelWriter is an open source plain text editor designed for writing novels. It supports a minimal markdown-like syntax for formatting text. It is written with Python 3 (3.8+) and Qt 5 (5.15) for cross-platform support.

  • I've seen one interesting tool that tries to bridge the gap somewhat for writing books, and it does that by being its own software with a split-panel view built-in and bolting extra syntax on top of markdown: https://github.com/vkbo/novelWriter

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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