Experimental Publishing Compendium

tool

Electric
Book

Description

A suite of software and templates that produce static sites for book publications from Markdown documents using Jekyll. Able to output as a website, PDF, and epub. Able to incorporate a range of images, videos, and iframes including complex mathematics using MathJax display engine for LaTeX notation.

Developer

Electric Books Works

Software license

GPL-3.0 License

Software language(s)

JavaScript

Project page

https://electricbookworks.github.io/electric-book/

Code repository

https://github.com/electricbookworks/electric-book

Output formats

PDF, HTML, doc, Cordova

Platform status

actively maintained

Practices

Computational publishing

Computational publishing broadly refers to publishing a book using techniques or processes from software development. This can include software...

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