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Adam Monsen
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Adam Monsen's personal blog at adammonsen.com covers programming and systems. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It has a working feed you can follow.
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Linked in HN threads on document tooling. Posts describe the author's experience with Pandoc and Asciidoctor, and his switch from Markdown with Pandoc to AsciiDoc while writing a technical book.
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Nice! Good luck. I'm writing a small book. I shared my experiences with Pandoc and Asciidoctor in case it helps you or anyone: https://adammonsen.com/post/2122/ Your use case may differ from mine (I didn't see you mention printing), but my anecdote above might help suss out tooling differences between Pandoc and Asciidoctor. Here's an example printable book generator using Asciidoctor PDF: https://github.com/meonkey…
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on “Pandoc”Submitted GNU Screen and Zmodem as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI wouldn't use Markdown for that. You're right to start with your requirements. Try to get detailed, like the list @WA wrote out, then match it up with appropriate tech. I wrote a technical book and I also wanted multiple decent-looking outputs. In my case: HTML, EPUB/mobi, screen and print PDFs. I was struggling with Markdown+pandoc+custom scripts/styles, so I switched to Asciidoc. I wrote about that process here:…
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on “Markdown is holding you back”Submitted GNU Screen and Zmodem as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why You Should Never Use Enlocked as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ext4ensics: What happens if you reach the directory index limit as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Avoid trivial merges with github pull requests as a story · 1 points
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