What tool do you use to write an ebook?

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I'm currently looking for a tool to use in my "scientific research" for school tomorrow. Any suggestions? It will contain many code snippets so I thought LibreOffice/MS Word won't be enough.

Update: will try to experiment with https://pandoc.org/ but open to suggestions

Swizec Teller · Accepted Answer

I’m partial to writing in Markdown using iA Writer. It’s a super low friction way to write, which I enjoy.

iA Writer can do a passable export to pdf I think. For Serverless Handbook, I used https://www.remarq.io/ to export to the various formats. Did great

I’ve also heard asciidoc as a popular suggestion when markdown isn’t enough anymore. Haven’t tried it myself

levelsio · Answer

Sublime Text in HTML

Jeremy · Answer

I've written a few using www.reedsy.com -- Solid editor and all the exports needed but unsure if it has all the snippets you need.

Ostap 🇺🇦 Brehin · Answer

Thanks for all the suggestions!

In the end, found [Ibis](https://github.com/themsaid/ibis), made a few [changes](https://github.com/themsaid/ibis/compare/master...osbre:master#diff-aa5dd2724f30cebdd7795cf02ae6a572645fd33f0048b4cb27f37fdc985a46b0) and it worked well

Also used Sublime Text to write markdown

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What tool do you use to write an ebook?

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