‘mkbok` - make book using markdown

Author: Larry Cai ([email protected])
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`.