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‘mkbok` - make book using markdown¶ ↑

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Author

Larry Cai (larry.caiyu@gmail.com)

Copyright

Copyright © 2012 by Larry Cai

License

Distributes under the Apache License 2.0, see LICENSE in the source distro

This application generate ebooks (.pdf,.epub,.mobi) from markdown plaintext files

Install¶ ↑

Install:

gem install mkbok

Usage¶ ↑

Create new project:

mkbok --generate sample # generate new book template based on kaiyuanbook
mkbok --build # needs pandoc,XeTex packages

For more help:

mkbok --help

Todo¶ ↑

Build over web

mkbok build --web http://mkbok.com/diy # it will zip file and upload to web
mkbok build --web http://mkbok.com/ --source http://github.com/larrycai/mkbok # generate pdf from github

Developing for ‘mkbok`¶ ↑

First, install bundler:

gem install bundler

Get the development dependencies

bundle install

Most of the code is in ‘mkbok.rb`.