{"id":498,"date":"2013-10-20T16:50:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T20:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/template_for_making_ebooks_with_pandoc_markdown"},"modified":"2013-11-17T04:20:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T04:20:07","slug":"template_for_making_ebooks_with_pandoc_markdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2013\/10\/template_for_making_ebooks_with_pandoc_markdown.html","title":{"rendered":"Template for Making Ebooks with Pandoc Markdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Charles Stross&#8217;s article, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/charlie\/blog-static\/2013\/10\/why-microsoft-word-must-die.html\">Why Microsoft Word Must Die<\/a>&#8220;, the thought occurred that someone, somewhere might be interested in using <a href=\"http:\/\/johnmacfarlane.net\/pandoc\/\">Pandoc<\/a> Markdown for generating ebooks.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re writing fiction, Pandoc is probably too nerdy to bother with. You should use Scrivener, which is highly polished and produces fine ebook output with the press of a button. However, if you like to work with a manuscript as a collection of plain text files that you can check into version control, Pandoc fits the bill nicely. It&#8217;s a bit easier to understand than <a href=\"http:\/\/sphinx-doc.org\">Sphinx<\/a>, and it can handle anything up to moderately complex technical books.<\/p>\n<p>So in case anyone finds it useful, here&#8217;s a project you can use to get started: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/evangoer\/pandoc-ebook-template\">https:\/\/github.com\/evangoer\/pandoc-ebook-template<\/a>. Pull requests welcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>However, if you like to work with a manuscript as a collection of plain text files that you can check into version control, Pandoc fits the bill nicely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}