Bookly

A simple command-line tool for generating ebooks or documents in different formats. It uses pandoc behind the scense to conver the documents.

Requirements

• node > 0.12.0 (you use nvm to manage your node versions)

• pandoc

• Amazon KindleGen

• python (for some pandoc filters)

• phantomjs (for making pdfs from html chapters)

  # Windows (MSVC 2013), 64-bit, for Windows Vista or later, bundles VC++ Runtime 2013
  $ curl -L http://astefanutti.github.io/decktape/downloads/phantomjs-msvc2013-win64.exe -o bin\phantomjs.exe
  # Mac OS X (Cocoa), 64-bit, for OS X 10.6 or later
  $ curl -L http://astefanutti.github.io/decktape/downloads/phantomjs-osx-cocoa-x86-64 -o bin/phantomjs
  # Linux (CentOS 6), 64-bit
  $ curl -L http://astefanutti.github.io/decktape/downloads/phantomjs-linux-centos6-x86-64 -o bin/phantomjs
  # Linux (CentOS 7), 64-bit
  $ curl -L http://astefanutti.github.io/decktape/downloads/phantomjs-linux-centos7-x86-64 -o bin/phantomjs
  # Linux (Debian 8), 64-bit
  $ curl -L http://astefanutti.github.io/decktape/downloads/phantomjs-linux-debian8-x86-64 -o bin/phantomjs
  

• latex (for building pdf)

Getting Started

• Install with npm i bookly -g
• Create a new project with bookly new docname
• Go to your book folder: cd docname
• Update the book name in ./config.js if you need to.
• Update book.txt
• Start writing the book (or your document) in the chapters folder.

Then you can use the following commands to the build the book:

Build Each Chapter

• Build the chapters only: bookly build -e
• Convert each html chapter to pdf: bookly build -e && bookly build -r

Build the Book

• Build the book in all formats: bookly build -a

• Build the book in give formats:

    bookly build -f 'format1, format2, ...'
  

  possible formats are: pdf, html, epub, mobi, md, docx, tex

  For example, the following converts the book in pdf and html

    bookly build -f 'pdf, html'
  

Creating manuscript

You can use the concat command to concatenate all the files in the input folder and create a manuscript folder. For example:

input/ch1/ch1.md, input/ch1/ch1-1.md` outputs `manuscript/ch1/ch1.md

You can use the -m flag to specify a name for the manuscript folder:

bookly concat -m 'foldername'

Options

Most of the options are used with the build command. Below is the full list of all options:

• -c (--config): Specifies the name of the config file in the root of the project.

• -e (--chapters-only): Only converts each chapter to html: bookly build -e

• -r (--render): Render html chapters with phantom: bookly build -r

  Renders each chapter in pdf. Only after each chapter is created with the e or a flag:, i.e.

    bookly build -e
  

• -p (--patterns): List of read file patterns, eg:

    bookly build -f 'html' -p '**/*.markdown'
  

  The -p defines a list of pattern(s) that overrides the default pattern (**/*.md). Multiple patterns can be passed in:

    bookly -p '*.md, **/*.md'
  

  Note: That pattern should exist, otherwise Pandoc will throw an error.

• -f (--formats): Specifies book output formats. Possible options are: pdf, epub, html, mobi, md, docx, tex. Multiple formats can be given as a list:

    bookly build -f 'html, epub, pdf'
  

• -a (--all): Converts the book to all formats:

    bookly build -a
  

  This will convert each chapter to html. In addition, it will convert the book to pdf, html, epub, mobi, md, docx, and tex formats.

• -n (--version-number): Version number value for the book:

    bookly build -f 'pdf' -n 'v0.0.1'
  

• -m (--manuscript): Used with the concat command: folder name for the manuscript:

    bookly concat -m 'mymanuscript'