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+# gitbook
+
+ * <https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook>
+ * CLI to build book from Markdown/AsciiDoc files
+ * Moved to platform-based model; still usable but not maintained any more
+ * JavaScript/nodejs
+
+# MDBook
+
+ * <https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook>
+ * Developed to be a successor to gitbook
+ * Binaries compiled from Rust
+ * Mature enough?
+
+# bookdown
+
+ * <https://bookdown.org>
+ * R package
+ * Output to HTML, PDF
+ * Many sample books
+
+# pandoc
+
+ * Most bare-bones solution
+ * <http://rtalbert.org/how-i-wrote-my-book/>
+
+# Softcover
+
+ * <https://github.com/softcover/softcover_book>
+ * Markdown + PolyTeX => HTML, LaTeX, PDF, etc.
+ * in Ruby
+ * Example: https://manual.softcover.io/book
+
+## Resources
+
+ * Markdown tutorial: <https://www.markdowntutorial.com>
+ * More solutions: <https://mundimark.github.io/markdown-tools-books>
+ * Hartl's Tenth Rule of Typesetting: Any sufficiently complicated typesetting system contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of LaTeX :)
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