The Tools I Use to Write Books (2018)
I've written 4 technical books including the Classic Computer Science Problems Series (<a href="https://classicproblems.com" rel="nofollow">https://classicproblems.com</a>). I agree with what Thorsten said at the end—none of this really matters—or it's marginal at most. Most people who say they want to write a book lack the motivation to do it. It's not the tools getting in the way.<p>Apress used Word templates back in 2013 when I did my first book with them. Manning let you use asciidoc or Word templates when I worked with them. I wrote my first book with them in markdown and translated to asciidoc using pandoc. There were so many formatting issues and I found the tools for asciidoc so immature that I ultimately went to using their Word templates on my next two books with them despite preferring purely text formats.<p>Now I'm working on my next book and I think I'm going to try self publishing. I'm liking leanpub's use of a markdown like format. But again none of this really matters. You can fix formatting later. You have to sit down and write!<p>PS Thorsten's "Writing an Interpreter in Go" is great:
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