Scripts to convert Markdown to PDF and ePub books with Pandoc. Command-line for Linux and GUI for macOS written in SwiftUI 3.
I like to write books and I like to make books. Both literarily. They have a lot in common and even more not in common. Writing is a creative process. Words, words and words. On the other hand, making books is mostly a technical process.
It’s a nice combination.
For years and years I’m searching for the “perfect” book environment. Perfect for writing, perfect for self publishing. It’s been a long journey, I made my first books around 2004. Half the time was writing; the other half programming. At that time, I was much into web programming so my “publishing system” was home-made in PHP and MySQL. Fun to do, impossible to maintain.
So, time to make a new system! Instead of reinventing the wheel I looked around, learned LaTeX, found Pandoc, learned a bit of shell and Lua scripting and glued that whole stuff together to my brand new writing environment.
I’m not a writer, nor a programmer, just a hobbyist who does this for fun. It was a lot (lot, lot, lot) try-and-error and I’m sure many parts could be done better but that does not matter for me. That’s part of the fun, just keep learning.
It’s all here, a repo with all the bits and pieces to make beautiful PDF’s and ePub books. An sample book, which is actually the manual, is included and it explains it all...