On Oct 3, 2008, at 8:46 AM, jiho wrote:
On 2008-October-03 , at 04:36 , Hans-Jörg Bibiko wrote:
Is there an easy workflow to produce a halfway decent looking book from this? I suspect it would involve Latex, which I know nothing about.
Do you know Fletcher Penney's MultMarkdown. It generates LaTeX out of Markdown.
http://fletcherpenney.net/mt/mt-search.cgi? tag=MultiMarkdown&blog_id=1
Multimarkdown is actually included in TextMate's Markdown bundle. I advise you to use the LaTeX memoir class. If you do not know anything about latex and wwant to customize your output a bit, read some introductory texts before diving into your file. "The not so short introduction to latex" is a good one, maybe you'll find some tutorials on the web regarding books in particular, and, if you use the memoir class, the manual of this class (provided with your latex installation and easily found on the web) is extensive and very interesting, with as much technical details as typesetting theory. It requires some getting used to and some learning but the results are far better than anything else you could use, in my opinion.
To read the documentation for the memoir class, assuming you have installed LaTeX using the MacTeX package, just open a Terminal window and type "texdoc memoir". This should open a local web page for you with links to the pdf documentation. I haven't used the memoir class personally myself, but I would definitely recommend it for someone coming fresh to LaTeX.
Good luck.
JiHO
Haris Skiadas Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Hanover College