Markdown Discuss - Jul 2015 - New Static Site Theme for World (Literature) Classics in Markdown e.g. A Tale of Two Cities, The Trial, etc.

Hello,

  As a showcase I've converted a good old Gutenberg plain text world
(literature) classic to markdown.

   See the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
   by Robert Louis Stevenson [1] as an example.

   Next I've put together a static site theme that lets you basically
drop all chapters into a _chapters folder and you're done, that is,
you get a great looking online live (e)book.

   See the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde live version (demo) [2]
   thanks to GitHub Pages (with built-in - surprise, surprise - Jekyll
processing ;-))

   And finally the ready-to-fork theme/template repo/source [3].


   Anyone else tried to convert world classics to Markdown
   for generating great looking books? Any insight appreciated.
Questions? Comments? Welcome.

   Cheers.

[1] https://github.com/writekit/classics--dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde
[2] http://drjekyllthemes.github.io/jekyll-book-theme
[3] https://github.com/drjekyllthemes/jekyll-book-theme

Looks great, but I have a small quibble. Throughout the book, you have 
used an en dash instead of an em dash, as here: ?empty as a 
church?till at last I got?. Might want to do a s/?/?/g & fix 
that.

Cool work, though!

Scott
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On 16 Jul 2015, at 17:48, Gerald Bauer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As a showcase I've converted a good old Gutenberg plain text world
> (literature) classic to markdown.
>
>  See the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
>  by Robert Louis Stevenson [1] as an example.
>
>  Next I've put together a static site theme that lets you basically
> drop all chapters into a _chapters folder and you're done, that is,
> you get a great looking online live (e)book.
>
>  See the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde live version (demo) [2]
>  thanks to GitHub Pages (with built-in - surprise, surprise - Jekyll
> processing ;-))
>
>  And finally the ready-to-fork theme/template repo/source [3].
>
>
>  Anyone else tried to convert world classics to Markdown
>  for generating great looking books? Any insight appreciated.
> Questions? Comments? Welcome.
>
>  Cheers.
>
> [1] https://github.com/writekit/classics--dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde
> [2] http://drjekyllthemes.github.io/jekyll-book-theme
> [3] https://github.com/drjekyllthemes/jekyll-book-theme
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Hello all,
Great work Gerald!

Your theme seems to be a good basis for others. I would use Bootstrap
for a better rendering by default but this is a personal choice ;)

In the same spirit (but not the same goal), I made some "Markdown dummy
data" from two whole public domain books with notes and images:
-    "A TEXT-BOOK OF ASTRONOMY" by GEORGE C. COMSTOCK [1]
-    "True Stories of Wonderful Deeds" [2]

They are designed to be test contents for WebDocBook [3] but can be used
for any other usage as it is written with raw Markdown (using the
Extended syntax).
As you may see, the rendering almost works "as-is" on GitHub browser
viewer (even for images).

Do not hesitate to fork the original repo and use it according to your
needs.

Regards.

[1] https://github.com/wdbo/dummy-data/tree/master/sub-chapter2
[2] https://github.com/wdbo/dummy-data/tree/master/sub-chapter1
[3] https://github.com/wdbo/webdocbook

Le 17/07/2015 00:48, Gerald Bauer a ?crit :
> Hello,
>
>   As a showcase I've converted a good old Gutenberg plain text world
> (literature) classic to markdown.
>
>    See the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
>    by Robert Louis Stevenson [1] as an example.
>
>    Next I've put together a static site theme that lets you basically
> drop all chapters into a _chapters folder and you're done, that is,
> you get a great looking online live (e)book.
>
>    See the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde live version (demo) [2]
>    thanks to GitHub Pages (with built-in - surprise, surprise - Jekyll
> processing ;-))
>
>    And finally the ready-to-fork theme/template repo/source [3].
>
>
>    Anyone else tried to convert world classics to Markdown
>    for generating great looking books? Any insight appreciated.
> Questions? Comments? Welcome.
>
>    Cheers.
>
> [1] https://github.com/writekit/classics--dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde
> [2] http://drjekyllthemes.github.io/jekyll-book-theme
> [3] https://github.com/drjekyllthemes/jekyll-book-theme
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