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I've been curious about "Magic Book" for Markdown/HTML/PDF. (EPUB and MOBI on the roadmap.)

The Magic Book Project is an open source project funded by New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. It aims to be the best free tool for creating print and digital books from a single source.

https://github.com/magicbookproject/magicbook

I learned about it because it's used for The Nature of Code 2nd Edition.

https://github.com/nature-of-code/noc-book-2

Sounded interesting, but this:

This project is for you, if:

... (last bullet point):

You want that command-line tool be be written in Node-only. No more XSLT.

Put me off, personally.

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