Gitbook is tool to write a book, which support the simple language markdown.
We can write it offline.
- first step to install gitbook
npm install gitbook-cli -g
- create a fold to put the book
mkdir book1
cd book1
- init a gitbook
gitbook init
-
edit the
summary.md
file -
create the book
gitbook build
- check the book
gitbook serve
When you update the summary, you can add the md file in the folder and modify the corresponding summary file. Then, you can update the file.
off course you can generate other format:
gitbook pdf ./ ./mybook.pdf
gitbook epub ./ ./mybook.epub
gitbook mobi ./ ./mybook.mobi
Before the command, you need to install the calibre
software, and put the calibre
as the user path. Ohterwise, you will get a ebook-convert
error.
EbookError: Error during ebook generation: 'ebook-convert' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Reference:
- windows 系统 GitBook生成PDF、epub报错Error during ebook generation: 'ebook-convert' 乱码_山岚突起,际会风云-CSDN博客
https://blog.csdn.net/zhouvip666/article/details/90709591 - https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook
- https://docs.gitbook.com/editing-content/markdown