Now write your novel in markdown in an index.md file. Every time you check in github will render a nice html file for you that's easy to read, but your source remains easy to write and diff since it's just markdown.
I had exactly that problem, although use of text-indent in the css meant that every paragraph starts indented, so you just make each line of dialogue a new paragraph and it works out ok. So yes, it's not ideal, but it's still pretty good.
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Create a gh-pages branch for your content, and make an _layouts folder. Then put something like this inside it: https://github.com/Shikaga/story/blob/gh-pages/_layouts/main...
Now write your novel in markdown in an index.md file. Every time you check in github will render a nice html file for you that's easy to read, but your source remains easy to write and diff since it's just markdown.
This is an interesting approach, but markdown strips whitespace which could be problematic with some forms of indentation (for dialogue, etc.)
Might still be worth it though. Thanks.
What sort of indentation do you want? Markdown allows pre-formatted text for code and the like. http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#precode
I had exactly that problem, although use of text-indent in the css meant that every paragraph starts indented, so you just make each line of dialogue a new paragraph and it works out ok. So yes, it's not ideal, but it's still pretty good.