Ask HN: Toolset to write an e-book

Re:Ask HN: Toolset to write an e-book by crazydiamond on Tuesday April 06, 2010 @12:19AM (#1243834)

There was an article a while back by the person who writes those "Dive into" series (Mark ??). Iirc, he stopped using markups and began writing directly in HTML. That way he could see exactly what he was getting and not waste time fighting a markup. See if you can google him. (dive into mark - iirc).

I used to have a lot of problems with textile some years back. One never knew when it would just ignore a markup. Same often happens with markdown.

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Re:Ask HN: Toolset to write an e-book by armandososa on Tuesday April 06, 2010 @02:28AM (#1244030)

Thank you, I think I found it: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/03/27/dive-into-histor...

So, HTML is really the best way to write a book? I mean, as a web developer I can write HTML, but I feel like thinking in markup will break my inspiration a bit.

Also, in the comments someone mentioned Pandoc, which looks sweet http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/

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