How to write a book in Emacs by Mickey Petersen.
From the post:
Writing a book is a time consuming process, and if you’re going to dedicate a year, or more, of your life to it, it makes sense to pick the best tool for the job. If you’re technically inclined – and if you use Emacs – then the choice is obvious.
As I recently finished writing a book on Mastering Emacs I figured I would share my thoughts, and ideas, on how to write a book – specifically my own book – in Emacs.
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For all of its power, Emacs won’t write the content of the book for you but it can help with the details that go into writing.
I disagree with the choice of reStructuredText as a format but you can ascribe that to a long association with SGML/XML. I can read marked up text almost as easily as I can ASCII. And no I don’t read it in one of the visual editors. Nothing against them but Emacs is just fine.
But read the rest of the post for the many tips therein!