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xvilka on Nov 11, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: MdBook – a command line tool to create books with ...

Biggest downside of this tool is inability to render PDF or ePub[1]. This is why we recently switched to Quarto[2]. Typst is also a good alternative, already mentioned in other comments.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/issues/815

[2] https://quarto.org/

hamdouni on Nov 11, 2024 [–]

Pandoc[1] helps to convert markdown to pdf and epub

[1] https://pandoc.org/epub.html

xvilka on Nov 11, 2024 | [–]

I know, Quarto is built on top of Pandoc.

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