Bookshop: Where Ruby Meets DocBook Development
I just published an early release of our gem, bookshop, an open-source Ruby-based framework for DocBook toolchain happiness and sustainable productivity. The framework is optimized to help developers quickly ramp-up, allowing them to more rapidly jump in and develop their DocBook-to-Output flows, by favoring convention over configuration, setting them up with best practices from the get-go. Reflections, Suggestions, and Assinine Comments Welcome!
The Goal: To go from zero-to-exporting (pdfs, epub or whatever) from your DocBook source files in under 10 minutes.
To Install: sudo gem install bookshop
To Build a New PDF Book: bookshop build pdf
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If you are interested in document production and don’t need DocBook support, check out the . Glyph uses it’s own syntax which is lighter than DocBook, and supports Markdown and Textile source.
I’ll try that again: Glyph framework.
Great work on the Glyph project! Thanks for sharing. Looks like a helpful document production solution for non-DocBook projects.
asciidoc is also a great tool.
Glad to see use of a Ruby based PDF converter. Sure would be nice to have someone working on an Open source Ruby XSL-FO implementation. For now I had to use Apache FOP, although bookshop is independent of any particular XSL-FO implementation.
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