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otter@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

If it helps, a number of courses at my university used open source git based textbooks. For example, you can replicate this Statistics textbook using any static site generator designed for documentation: moderndive.com (github.com/moderndive/ModernDive_book/)

We use vitepress for our docs: fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started

Or you can get even simpler by using plain markdown files organized into folders

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a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Thanks for the info.

In my opinion, it’s better to start off simple while writing the content since then you can pick a tool based on what type of formatting you end up needing

Yeah I guess there should be rudimentary markdown to LaTeX translation programs, right?

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- otter@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  Yeah I guess there should be rudimentary markdown to LaTeX translation programs, right?
  
  I haven’t tried any, but I would think so yes. You can probably run a script over the files to accomplish the same thing :)
  
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  - a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Yeah a script doesn’t sound like a bad idea
    
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- Meron35@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  pandoc. Converts markdown to html, latex, pdf, and Word.
  
  It serves as the backend behind basically every program that support some kind of rendering of markdown, e.g. quarto, ipython notebooks.
  
  Pandoc - Pandoc User’s Guide - pandoc.org/MANUAL.html
  
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