Steps to use

Installation

(Recommended) Winget

winget install ignatandrei.MakeBookCLI

Github

Download latest version of the software from github

https://github.com/ignatandrei/makeBook/releases

You will download an executable file - latest is https://github.com/ignatandrei/makeBook/releases/download/v8.2024.822.523/MakeBookCLI.exe

Note for Windows Users : Unblock the software prior to execute it.

Run MakeBookCLI

Now run

MakeBookCLI i --folder 
MakeBookCLI gmk --folder

The first command will init the structure.

The second one will start to generate output ( html, doc,epub) from the markdown files.

Usage

Put title and author

Modify bookData.json file in the .bookSettings folder and change the author ( obviously , your name ) and title ( obviously , the title of the book )

Put the chapters in the book folder

Modify the documents on the book folder. The program will execute continuously and generate the html and doc documents . Those can be seen at the .output folder

PDF

If you want the pdf , then you should install a PDF Engine . You could install miktext with

choco install pandoc
choco install rsvg-convert python miktex

Modify in the .bookSettings/bookData.json

"valueNear": ".pandoc/pandoc.exe",
"value": "%LocalAppData%\\Pandoc\\pandoc.exe"

Also modify in .bookSettings/bookData.json the "make an pdf with miktext" value

"enabled":true,
"redirectOutput":false

Close the app ( and the console that you are using )and restart the application .

For more details,please read documentation at https://ignatandrei.github.io/makeBook/