Write books like a hacker

Imagine Markdown with the power and quality of LaTeX.

This is what this simple project try to achieve. You can declare macros directly in markdown:

%%% macroname %%% a \LaTeX macro value %%%

In markdown, you simply write %macroname, and it will be transformed correctly in your pdf.

Install

You'll need to install ruby, rake (installed by default on most computer).

[Ubuntu]> sudo apt-get install ruby rake

You'll also need a XeLaTeX installation (may I suggest TexLive full install?).

You'll also need the kramdown gem.

gem install kramdown

And you should be ok to work.

How do I write a book using it?

Write some file into content. Their format is the kramdown one (very close to Markdown)

Just run

rake

Of course there is also a

rake clean

and

rake clobber

The inclusion of files is done naturally by Dir[content/**/*.md] . If you want a more versatile way of doing it, simply look at the Rakefile and do a bit of ruby to sort file as you wish.