[TxMt] Writing a Book with TextMate

[marios]

Hi,

I would like to gather some suggestions for the following.

1) Don't want to go into that Latex thing.
2) Keep chapters in simple Text Format ( or markdown or Textile )
3) Project also contains a huge amount of reference files in txt and pdf
format
4) What's the best way to handle:

a) Index
b) footnotes
c) References
d) Appendixes etc.

Is it a good thing to keep the Book in one single file, or is it better
to use multiple files ?

Suggestions, links and resources welcome

regards, marios