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All of my books were written in LaTeX.\u00a0 For a long time I used emacs to compose, pdflatex to convert to PDF, Hevea to convert to HTML, and a hacked-up version of plasTeX to convert to DocBook, which is one of the formats I can submit to my publisher, O’Reilly Media.<\/p>\n

Recently I switched from emacs to Texmaker for composition, and I recommend it strongly.\u00a0 I also use Overleaf for shared LaTeX documents, and I can recommend that, too.<\/p>\n

However, the rest of the tools I use are pretty clunky.\u00a0 The HTML I get from Hevea is not great, and my hacked version of plasTeX is just awful (which is not plasTeX’s fault).<\/p>\n

Since I am starting some new book projects, I decided to rethink my tools.\u00a0 So I asked Twitter, “If you were starting a new book project today, what typesetting language \/ development environment would you use?\u00a0 LaTeX with Texmaker?\u00a0Bookdown with RStudio? Jupyter?Other?”<\/p>\n

I got some great responses.\u00a0 You can read the whole thread yourself<\/a>, but I will try to summarize it here.<\/p>\n

LaTeX<\/h4>\n

\"\"Nelis Willers\u00a0“wrote a 510 page book with LaTeX, using WinEdt<\/a> and MiKTeX<\/a>\u00a0and CorelDraw<\/a> for diagrams. Worked really well.”<\/p>\n

Matt Boelkins likes “PreTeXt<\/a>, hands down:\u00a0 It has LaTeX and HTML as potential outputs among many. See the gallery of existing texts on the linked page.”<\/p>\n

makusu\u00a0recommends “Emacs org-mode. Easy to just write your content, seamless integration with latex, easy output to latex, PDF, markdown and HTML.”<\/p>\n

AsciiDoc<\/h4>\n

Luciano Ramalho recommends “AsciiDoc, for sure. That’s how I wrote @fluentpython. It’s syntax more user-friendly than ReStructuredText and way more expressive than Markdown. AsciiDoc was *designed for* book publishing. It’s as expressive as DocBook, but it ain’t XML. With @asciidoctor you can render locally.”<\/p>\n

JD Long provides a useful reminder: “It\u2019s dependent on the publisher as well as the content of the book. I like Bookdown for R, but if I were doing a devops book for O\u2019Reilly I\u2019d write directly in AsciiDoc, for example. So I think context matters highly.”<\/p>\n

Yves Hilpisch says “AsciiDoctor is my favorite these days. Clear syntax, nice output, fast rendering (HTML\/PDF). Have custom Python scripts that convert @ProjectJupyter notebooks into text files from which I include code snippets automatically.”\u00a0 His scripts are in this GitHub repository<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Markdown<\/h4>\n

Robert Talbot recommends “Markdown in a plain text editor, with Pandoc on the back end for the finished product.\u00a0\u00a0This is assuming that the book is mostly text. If it involves code, I might lean more toward Jupyter and some kind of Binder based process.”\u00a0 Here’s a blog <\/a>post Robert wrote on the topic.<\/p>\n

I got a recommendation for this blog post by Thorsten Ball<\/a>, who uses Markdown, pandoc, and KindleGen.<\/p>\n

One person recommended “writing Markdown then using pandoc to pass to LaTeX”, which is an interesting chain.<\/p>\n

Visual Studio Code got a few mentions: “I haven’t written a full book using it, but VS Code plus markdown preview and other editing plugins is my current go-to for small articles”<\/p>\n

“Bookdown in RStudio is wonderful to use.”<\/p>\n

Jupyter<\/h4>\n

Chris Holdgraf is “working on a project to help people make nicely rendered online books from collections of Jupyter notebooks<\/a>. We use it @ Berkeley for teaching at http:\/\/inferentialthinking.com.”<\/a><\/p>\n

RestructuredText<\/h4>\n

Jason Moore recommends “your preferred text editor + RestructuredText + Sphinx = pdf\/epub\/html output; wrote my dissertation with it 6 years ago and was quite happy with the results.”<\/p>\n

Matt Harrison uses his “own tools around rst (with conversion to LaTeX and epub).”<\/p>\n

Other<\/h4>\n

Pollen: the book is a program<\/a><\/p>\n

Raffaele Abate recommends “ScrivenerApp<\/a>: I’ve used their Linux beta in past for a short, nonscientific, book and I can say it’s an amazing software for this purpose. I’ve read that is usable also for scientific publishing with profit.”<\/p>\n

Lak Lakshmanan wrote, “I used Google docs for my previous book and for my current offer. Not as composable as latex, but amazing for collaboration. Books need to fine-grained reviews and edits by several people spread around the world. Nothing like Google docs for that.”<\/p>\n

And the winner is…<\/h4>\n

For now I am working in LaTeX with Texmaker, but I have run it through pandoc to generate AsciiDoc, and that seems to work well.\u00a0 I will work on the book and the conversion process at the same time.\u00a0 At some point,\u00a0I might switch over to editing in AsciiDoctor.\u00a0 I also need to do a test run with O’Reilly to see if they can ingest the AsciiDoc I generate.<\/p>\n

I will post updates as I work out the details.<\/p>\n

Thank you to everyone who responded!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All of my books were written in LaTeX.\u00a0 For a long time I used emacs to compose, pdflatex to convert to PDF, Hevea to convert to HTML, and a hacked-up version of plasTeX to convert to DocBook, which is one of the formats I can submit to my publisher, O’Reilly Media. Recently I switched from emacs to Texmaker for composition, and I recommend it strongly.\u00a0 I also use Overleaf for shared LaTeX documents, and I can recommend that, too. However,…<\/p>\n

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