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by __mharrison__ 12 days ago
Use Pandoc w/ Typst. I've published many books using it.

In fact, just had a friend with a traditionally published book who is now self-pubbing ask me yesterday about my tools. I recommended Pandoc and Typst. He (surprisingly to me) had never heard of Typst, but within the hour replied that (with the use of AI) he had a great-looking template for the book. (Try doing that with LaTeX).
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mrkwse 12 days ago
Could you elaborate on your workflow? Which tool do you start in (presumably it's a sequential flow?)? When is it that you go across the tools?
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__mharrison__ 12 days ago
Jupyter to markdown to typst. Pandoc does the last conversation. (Pandoc also creates epubs for me).

I have some custom filters for index entries and code formatting.

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jcheng 11 days ago
I'm curious if Quarto could coordinate all of that for you automatically. It supports both code execution via Jupyter, and output via Typst (including books).

https://quarto.org/docs/computations/python.html

https://quarto.org/docs/output-formats/typst.html

https://quarto.org/docs/books/book-output.html#typst-output

https://quarto.org/docs/output-formats/typst-custom.html#boo...

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