BookMaker

A Book Authoring Application in Python - inspired by Gitbook-Legacy

BookMaker is a book authoring application in Python.

Introduction

• BookMaker facilitates authoring using MarkDown, with a live preview.
• Handles a complete book with a live tree display of chapters, sections and subsections.
• Exporting to EPUB
• Exporting to PDF (generating suitable HTML and CSS for Prince)

How to install it?

Using poetry (https://python-poetry.org/)

If you don't already have poetry:

curl -sSL https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 -

then

git clone https://github.com/marcris/bookmaker_mc.git
cd bookmaker_mc
poetry build
pip3 install dist/*.whl

If poetry build results in

  ModuleNotFoundError

  No module named 'virtualenv.activation.xonsh'

  at <frozen importlib._bootstrap>:973 in _find_and_load_unlocked

then try

pip uninstall virtualenv

Poetry build should give something like this

Building bookmaker_mc (0.6.0)
  - Building sdist
  - Built bookmaker_mc-0.6.0.tar.gz
  - Building wheel
  - Built bookmaker_mc-0.6.0-py3-none-any.whl

Then

pip install dist/*.whl

and run using the command 'bm'.

Links

• BookMaker GitHub repository including documentation (in preparation) https://github.com/marcris/BookMaker_mc