Create a Book on Markdown

Last updated Jun 30, 2023

For creating a Book on top of Markdown, there are some solutions I want to explore here.

This could be done solely in Obsidian, but there wouldn’t be management around chapters, post-processing and many other things that include a book.

There are that add a such feature, for example, GitBook tackles it from the documentation side. But in the same area, there is Quartz - Publish Obsidian Vault where I build my Second Brain on and all the other Static Site Generators (SSG) website tools. E.g. my Website is built with GoHugo.

But there are also others:

• mdBook based on Rust, an example is the Rust book (documentation)
• Using Pandoc: Building books with Markdown using pandoc
• Frictionless Self-Publishing for Tech-Savvy Writers | Softcover.io used by Shawn Swyx Wang

• MEAP Catalog
• Beautiful Racket by Matthew Butterick
• GitHub - andkret/Cookbook: The Data Engineering Cookbook
• Data With Rust by Karim Jedda
• “Free Speech” from Timothy Garton Ash? origin
• • Nicole van der Hoeven: started with Obsidian: Tweet
    • YouTube of starting out (with Obsidian)
• Patterns in C by Adam Tornhill [Leanpub PDF/iPad/Kindle]
• Julian Shapiro’s self published book/guide: Writing Handbook by Julian Shapiro: Writing Handbook by Julian Shapiro

More on Self Publish a Book.

A great analogy of Writing in Public is the Brazilian Soup Opera.

• mdBook example on mdBook Documentation (HTML)
• The Data Engineering Cookbook by Andreas Kretz on GitHub.
• Writing a novel in Markdown - pdworkman.com with Obsidian

• mdBook
  From HN Discussion:
• Jekyll
• Hugo Book
• MdBook
• MkDocs
• MkDocs Material
• GitBook
• Antora
• Docusaurus
• Nextra
• Astro
• Starlight
• Clowncar
• Keenwrite
• Quarto
• Honkit
• JupyterBook
• nimibook.
• Bookdown ( https://bookdown.org/)

Read more on Self Publish a Book.

Origin: Book Proposal- Data Engineering Design Patterns (DEDP)
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Created 2023-02-20