https://github.com/practicingruby/bookie

experimental book formatting toolchain
https://github.com/practicingruby/bookie

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experimental book formatting toolchain

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/practicingruby/bookie
• Owner: practicingruby
• Created: 2011-04-23T23:18:29.000Z (over 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2011-10-07T14:47:15.000Z (almost 13 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-03-18T22:42:21.977Z (6 months ago)
• Language: Ruby
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• Size: 4.78 MB
• Stars: 62
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 3
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md

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README

        
![Bookie Logo](https://github.com/sandal/bookie/raw/master/doc/banner.png)

While I have not looked especially far and wide, I haven't found a book

publishing toolchain that I like which both has a nice workflow AND does not

rely on a ton of heavyweight dependencies. Since I have a real need for

outputting nice documents in PDF, ePUB, and MOBI format, I am going to

experiment with building a tool that fits my personal tastes and workflow.

## Roadmap

My initial goal is just to mess around with parsing a tiny subset of Markdown

into Ruby objects. Once I've got that far, I'll work on a proof of concept PDF

outputter, probably using [Prawn](http://prawn.majesticseacreature.com). If I 

make it that far without discovering some obviously better tool or deciding 

that this is going to be a huge time sink, I'll re-visit this document and

put together a proper release plan.

## Dependencies

Bookie targets Ruby 1.9.2 exclusively, and will not run on Ruby 1.8.

PDF generation is provided by [Prawn](http::/prawn.majesticseacreature.com),

ePUB from [eeepub](https://github.com/jugyo/eeepub), and MOBI via the command

line tool [kindlegen](http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000234621).

PDF can be generated out of the box after installing the bookie gem. For ePUB,

it's necessary to have the GNU zip command line utility present (preinstalled on

OS X and many linux distros, but you may need msys on Windows, not sure.). For

MOBI, you need to install kindlegen manually.

A long term goal for this project would be to eliminate most or all of these

non-ruby dependencies, but I want to get a working toolchain together first.

## Contributing

I'm happy to accept contributions to this project, but probably won't

have a formal process for doing so until I've gone beyond the proof of concept

phase. Please do catch up with me if you have questions, suggestions, or ideas

though. I am @seacreature on Freenode and twitter, and my email address is 

[email protected].

## License

Bookie is Free Software, available under the GNU General Public License (v3).

Please see the GPLv3 file for details, and feel free to contact me if you have

any questions