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schacon / git-scribe

git-scribe

basically the best way to write an ebook

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2012	2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	0	2
2013	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1	0
2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

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raju·Apr 3, 2014

Not as nice as this but there is Github's git-scribe that uses AsciiDoc for writing - https://github.com/schacon/git-scribe It hasn't seen movement lately though.

In Show HN: GitBook – Build beautiful programming books using GitHub and Markdown

mangojuicebaby·Oct 9, 2013Submission

Git-scribe tool: a simple GIT command line toolset to write e-books

6 points · Open discussion

rapind·May 16, 2012

Would this help? https://github.com/schacon/git-scribe Edit: Actually the project looks dead, so I'm not sure you'd want to use it.

In The Bastards Book of Ruby

rpwilcox·Jan 29, 2012

Another vote for Scivener here, BUT you might be interested in git-scribe also (https://github.com/schacon/git-scribe)

In Why Every Entrepreneur Should Self-Publish a Book

eee_c·Dec 16, 2011

I agree that the PDF formatting leaves something to be desired. We are using the OSS git-scribe (https://github.com/schacon/git-scribe) toolchain for producing PDF, Mobi, and ePub. I have already put a ton of work into the toolchain to make it better (http://japhr.blogspot.com/search/label/git-scribe). Most of that work, however, was to help get the Mobi and ePub versions up to snuff. I plan to take a week or so in the very near future to again focus on improving the toolchain. Hopefully some, if not all, of your valid criticisms will get addressed.

In Recipes with Backbone.js

jayunit·Jul 15, 2011

Hey folks - Jason from thoughtbot here. We're aiming for a very collaborative format here, giving collab access on GitHub as we write the book using Scott Chacon's git-scribe [1]. I'm hoping to solicit feedback as we go, and make the book content the best it can be. What do you think of this approach? 1: https://github.com/schacon/git-scribe

In Backbone.js on Rails (a book by Thoughbot)

kneath·Mar 31, 2011

https://github.com/schacon/git-scribe Highly recommend you check this out. We're pretty interested in this idea and definitely want to see it take off.

In Github, the future of book publishing?