Show HN: Asciibook – An eBook Generator for AsciiDoc
GitBook used to be the best open source e-book generator, but they abandoned the project at the end of 2018. E-book authors either continue to use GitBook without maintenance or write their own scripts. So I came up with the idea to write a new eBook generation tool to replace GitBook.
Homepage: https://asciibook.org/ GitHub: https://github.com/asciibook/asciibook
Features:
- Supports generation of HTML/PDF/EPUB/MOBI.
- Based on the command line, distributed via docker, works well with CI/CD.
- HTML/CSS/JavaScript based theme system.
- Support latexmath.
For demonstrate, I generated an e-book using the source code of the "Pro Git", please visit https://asciibook.org/progit2/.
This project has just been released, I will continue to optimize it. Welcome to use and provide feedback.
4 comments
[ 0.36 ms ] story [ 22.7 ms ] threadThe fact that Gitbook is no longer maintained is a sad news for me. I don't usually write books but I my favorite to maintain a product manuel is to use Gitbook. For example, here is a prototype for my recent project: https://xxz.jakehao.com
At a first glance Asciibook's interface is not eye appealing as Gitbook. I hope your project can keep the momentum and hope to use it in production one day!
GitBook's default theme is great. I think the biggest difference is that the toc is displayed on the left side and can be displayed persistently. I will improve the default theme.
I noticed a bug: In the sample PDF (https://github.com/asciibook/progit2/releases) the admonitions are not loading. Instead there are empty rectangles where the icons should be.