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Write a Book with Markdown

Ryan Frazier on November 22, 2019

I have been working on my book Learn Elm by Example – Build a calculator and have developed several scripts to generate PDF and epub from markdown ...
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Bijan Boustani

This is awesome! I'm the same way about enjoying the simplicity of writing in Markdown.

You might like proselint too. If you have a build process you can run it from the command line and get some tips from their list of checks. And it's configurable with a .proselintrc file so you can opt out of some checks as needed.

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Ryan Frazier

Thanks. This looks great.

I've always wanted a way to run grammarly or hemmingway app from a cli on my markdown. This seems like it might come close.

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gholden

I get a 404 on the link to your book .

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Ryan Frazier

Thanks for letting me know. I imported the post to dev.to from my blog via rss and dev.to messed up the link. I fixed it.