Are you writing the next big novel? Are you writing a technical how-to book? Do you want to collaborate with other writers?

Whether your’re working alone or with a group, there’s a great markdown-based workflow that you can use that’s based on Leanpub’s infrastructure and tools.

Books Example

The overview text is stored in /content/books/[book-title]/summary.md, which is pure markdown that is automatically folded into the top-level books summary page. Each chapter is in its own markdown file which gets stitched into a single page, based on the list contained in /content/books/[book-title]/Book.txt.

├─ content
└── books
  └── 01-my-gamedev-book
    ├── Book.txt
    ├── chapter01.md
    ├── chapter02.md
    ├── ...
    ├── cover.png
    ├── index.md
    └── summary.md

Here’s what a typical Book.txt file looks like.

  chapter01.md
  chapter02.md
  chapter03.md
  chapter04.md
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