Writing a book in the age of open source

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Msty AI

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I can sympathize with the OP authors' frustration with Markdown and resulting preference for ASCIIDoc (try to format a poem, or a play script, in Markdown). Lots of people have addressed this, and NIH rules supreme -- see reStructured Text[2]. However several comments here mention the convenience of a workflow based on Markdown + GIT. Exactly that workflow is the heart of Leanpub[0]. That site facilitates writing into text files organized and stored on Github (or Dropbox), compiling at any point to a finished-looking e-text, which you can then sell via their storefront[1], or take the finished ebook or pdf to a different platform. Leanpub supports their own Markdown variant (sigh). [0] https://leanpub.com/authors [1] https://leanpub.com/bookstore?type=book [2] https://docutils.sourceforge.io/rst.html.

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