Manuscripts - New Book Format for Markdown

[Gerald Bauer]

Hello,

  I've created a new simple book format that lets you build books
with free industry-strength static site builders (such as Jekyll, for example).

The idea is / the step are simple:

1) Add your markdown docs
2) Add a book.yml & contents.yml
3) Pick a Theme

Done. See it in action (still early and rough).

The Jekyll "Manuscript" (source) [1] with its book.yml [2] e.g.

   title:  "Jekyll Documentation (Book Edition)"
   author:
     name: "Tom Preston-Werner, Nick Quaranto, Parker Moore, et al"

and contents.yml [3] e.g.

    - title: Getting Started
      sections:
      - title: Welcome
        path:  01_getting_started/01_index.md
        sections:
        - title: "So what is Jekyll, exactly?"
        - title: "Helpful Hints"
      - title: Quick-start guide
        path:  01_getting_started/02_quickstart.md
      - title: Installation
        path:  01_getting_started/03_installation.md
        ...

that gets linked into the theme via a git submodule (source) [4]
and thanks to GitHub Pages & Jekyll results in a single-page black &
white online book [5].

Question? Comments? Welcome. Cheers.

PS: Interested in more static site builder and markdown (kramdown) news?
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[1] https://github.com/manuscripts/jekyll
[2] https://github.com/manuscripts/jekyll/blob/master/book.yml
[3] https://github.com/manuscripts/jekyll/blob/master/contents.yml
[4] https://github.com/planetjekyll/book-jekyll
[5] http://planetjekyll.github.io/book-jekyll
[6] https://twitter.com/statictimes