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MdBook – a command line tool to create books with Markdown

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Re: MdBook – a command line tool to create books with Markdown

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While we're on the topic of MD, what's the best system for Markdown-based static blogs these days? With good code highlighting, images, colors, etc.

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Isn't it a reasonable reaction, whenever you see a new (to you) product, to ask how it compares to others?

Re: MdBook – a command line tool to create books with Markdown

#52
Biggest downside of this tool is inability to render PDF or ePub[1]. This is why we recently switched to Quarto[2]. Typst is also a good alternative, already mentioned in other comments.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/issues/815

[2] https://quarto.org/

Re: MdBook – a command line tool to create books with Markdown

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While we're on the topic of MD, what's the best system for Markdown-based static blogs these days? With good code highlighting, images, colors, etc.

I'm satisfied with Hugo: https://gohugo.io/ It is very fast and has a lot of features. The syntax highlighting for code looks also very good.

Re: MdBook – a command line tool to create books with Markdown

#56
Depending on the content, I would recommend AsciiDoc (and not Markdown) to write a book. Markdown might be a good fit for text-only books like fiction, but AsciiDoc has much more useful formattings for structrured documents like technical or scientific books.

Re: MdBook – a command line tool to create books with Markdown

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post #56

Depending on the content, I would recommend AsciiDoc (and not Markdown) to write a book. Markdown might be a good fit for text-only books like fiction, but AsciiDoc has much more useful formattings for structrured documents like technical or scientific books.

https://github.com/daviddrysdale/mdbook-asciidoc

Re: MdBook – a command line tool to create books with Markdown

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While we're on the topic of MD, what's the best system for Markdown-based static blogs these days? With good code highlighting, images, colors, etc.

There are 355 generators on this page, many of which support markdown: https://jamstack.org/generators/

Re: MdBook – a command line tool to create books with Markdown

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post #52

Biggest downside of this tool is inability to render PDF or ePub[1]. This is why we recently switched to Quarto[2]. Typst is also a good alternative, already mentioned in other comments. [1] https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/issues/815 [2] https://quarto.org/

Pandoc[1] helps to convert markdown to pdf and epub

[1] https://pandoc.org/epub.html

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