added post on book writing experience

Author: learnbyexample

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                         <a class="previous" href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnbyexample.github.io&#x2F;2020-favorite-fiction&#x2F;">‹ Favorite fictional books I read this year</a>
 
 
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       <p>Either you've already heard of <code>pandoc</code> or if you have searched online for <code>markdown</code> to <code>pdf</code> or similar, you are sure to come across <code>pandoc</code>. This tutorial will help you use <code>pandoc</code> to generate <code>pdf</code> and <code>epub</code> from a <a href="https://github.github.com/gfm/">GitHub style markdown</a> file. The main motivation for this blog post is to highlight what customizations I did to generate <code>pdf</code> and <code>epub</code> versions for <a href="https://learnbyexample.github.io/books/">self-publishing my ebooks</a>. It wasn't easy to arrive at the set-up I ended up with, so I hope this will be useful for those looking to use <code>pandoc</code> to generate <code>pdf</code> and <code>epub</code> formats. This guide is specifically aimed at technical books that has code snippets.</p>
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 <h2 id="installation">Installation<a class="zola-anchor" href="#installation" aria-label="Anchor link for: installation">🔗</a></h2>
-<p>I use Ubuntu, as far as I remember, the below steps are enough to work for the demos in this tutorial. If you get an error or warning, search that issue online and you'll likely find what else has to be installed.</p>
+<p>If you use a debian based distro like Ubuntu, the below steps are enough for the demos in this tutorial. If you get an error or warning, search that issue online and you'll likely find what else has to be installed.</p>
 <p>I first downloaded <code>deb</code> file from <a href="https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/releases">pandoc: releases</a> and installed it. Followed by packages needed for <code>pdf</code> generation.</p>
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-<code><span style="color:#5597d6;">$ </span><span style="color:#7f8989;"># latest pandoc version as of 21 July 2020 is 2.10
-</span><span style="color:#5597d6;">$</span><span style="color:#1f1f1f;"> sudo gdebi </span><span style="color:#5597d6;">~</span><span style="color:#1f1f1f;">/Downloads/pandoc-2.10-1-amd64.deb
+<code><span style="color:#5597d6;">$ </span><span style="color:#7f8989;"># latest pandoc version as of 24 Jan 2021 is 2.11.4
+</span><span style="color:#5597d6;">$</span><span style="color:#1f1f1f;"> sudo gdebi </span><span style="color:#5597d6;">~</span><span style="color:#1f1f1f;">/Downloads/pandoc-2.11.4-1-amd64.deb
 
-</span><span style="color:#5597d6;">$ </span><span style="color:#7f8989;"># note that download size is 750+ MB
+</span><span style="color:#5597d6;">$ </span><span style="color:#7f8989;"># note that download size is hundreds of MB
 </span><span style="color:#5597d6;">$</span><span style="color:#1f1f1f;"> sudo apt install texlive-xetex
 </span><span style="color:#5597d6;">$</span><span style="color:#1f1f1f;"> sudo apt install librsvg2-bin
-</span><span style="color:#5597d6;">$</span><span style="color:#1f1f1f;"> sudo apt install texlive-math-extra
+</span><span style="color:#5597d6;">$</span><span style="color:#1f1f1f;"> sudo apt install texlive-science
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 <p>For more details and guide for other OS, refer to <a href="https://pandoc.org/installing.html">pandoc: installation</a></p>
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+    <header class="post__header">
+        <h1 class="post__title">
+            <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnbyexample.github.io&#x2F;my-book-writing-experience&#x2F;">Paying my bills with &#x27;free&#x27; ebooks</a>
+        </h1>
+        <div class="post__meta">
+            <span class="post__time">2021-03-03</span>
+            
+        </div>
+    </header>
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+                                    <div class="post__summary">
+                                        <p><strong>TL;DR</strong>: Small victories are more precious when you have nothing. Instead of burning through my savings, I'm now adding to it. The relief is priceless.</p>
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+                                    <div class="read-more">
+                                        <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnbyexample.github.io&#x2F;my-book-writing-experience&#x2F;">Read more...</a>
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             <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnbyexample.github.io&#x2F;100-page-python-intro-book-announcement&#x2F;">100 Page Python Intro book announcement</a>
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-            <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnbyexample.github.io&#x2F;substitution-with-ripgrep&#x2F;">Search and replace tricks with ripgrep</a>
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-            <span class="post__time">2020-09-16</span>
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-                                        <p><a href="https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep">ripgrep</a> (command name <code>rg</code>) is a <code>grep</code> tool, but supports search and replace as well. <code>rg</code> is far from a like-for-like alternate for <code>sed</code>, but it has nifty features like multiline replacement, fixed string matching, <code>PCRE2</code> support, etc. This post gives an overview of syntax for substitution and highlights some of the cases where <code>rg</code> is a handy replacement for <code>sed</code>.</p>
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-                                        <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;learnbyexample.github.io&#x2F;substitution-with-ripgrep&#x2F;">Read more...</a>
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