have you guys picked a platform yet for writing the book? using LaTeX? this looks like something that http://pen.fm might be useful for, especially since the founder of that is into node as well, might be doing meteor stuff too actually :)
Seconding the PenFM suggestion. I know mike personally and have seen his work on the platform. It's very impressive. I don't think there's anything else out there that can so easily push out a perfectly-formatted ebook without all the usual pains involved.
If you do end up deciding to use LaTeX, please consider http://SpanDeX.io! Not sure when you intend to start writing but in the next month we plan to push out some really robust reviewing/editing features. I don't think we've had anyone write a book on our platform yet so it'd be interesting to see how that goes. Anyway, if you end up going this route feel free to reach out to me if you have any feedback!
Even if you don't need LaTeX, you should consider it anyhow: even if its a little awkward and clunky, it does separate content from presentation and the results tend to look really good.
You could also check out something like Pandoc, which would let you write the actual content in markdown and then export it to LaTeX (or HTML).
it's a really simple site w/wysiwyg for writing e-books (spits out epub/mobi/pdf too). has a nice reader as well (see prev demo link). i think mike@pen.fm is in palo alto actually.
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have you guys picked a platform yet for writing the book? using LaTeX? this looks like something that http://pen.fm might be useful for, especially since the founder of that is into node as well, might be doing meteor stuff too actually :)
e.g. http://www.pen.fm/read/Returning-as-an-Engineer-PN1368383b7c...
Seconding the PenFM suggestion. I know mike personally and have seen his work on the platform. It's very impressive. I don't think there's anything else out there that can so easily push out a perfectly-formatted ebook without all the usual pains involved.
What does Pen.fm do?
And we haven't really decided on this yet, I don't think we'll need to use LaTeX but we'll see. Any suggestions are welcome :)
If you do end up deciding to use LaTeX, please consider http://SpanDeX.io! Not sure when you intend to start writing but in the next month we plan to push out some really robust reviewing/editing features. I don't think we've had anyone write a book on our platform yet so it'd be interesting to see how that goes. Anyway, if you end up going this route feel free to reach out to me if you have any feedback!
Even if you don't need LaTeX, you should consider it anyhow: even if its a little awkward and clunky, it does separate content from presentation and the results tend to look really good.
You could also check out something like Pandoc, which would let you write the actual content in markdown and then export it to LaTeX (or HTML).
it's a really simple site w/wysiwyg for writing e-books (spits out epub/mobi/pdf too). has a nice reader as well (see prev demo link). i think mike@pen.fm is in palo alto actually.