As open source books, ebooks and pdf format should be created on fly, the following sections describe those solution in detail.
- Markdownbook/*.md : all source chapters
- template/template.tex : book style
PDF format is used to read/print in nice way like real book, MultiMarkdown is good at this and it is used instead to generate latex from multimarkdown, and latex tool xelatex (is part of TexLive now) is used to convert pdf from latex.
Please check ctax and TexLive for more background for latex, which is quite complicated and elegant if you have never touched before.
Ubuntu Platform Precise (18.04) is used mainly and it is continuously verified by travis-ci.org as well.
$ sudo apt-get install texlive-xetex
$ sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-recommended # main packages
$ sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra # package titlesec
You need to install related fonts for Chinese, fortunately they exist in ubuntu source also.
$ sudo apt-get install fonts-arphic-gbsn00lp fonts-arphic-ukai # from arphic
$ sudo apt-get install fonts-wqy-microhei fonts-wqy-zenhei # from WenQuanYi
multimarkdown shall be compiled from git source，if not, maybe you can run "scripts/install.multimarkdown.sh".
Then it should work perfectly
$ make
the latex template is template/template.tex, it contains the style and include the preface,chapters,appendix latex files, which are generated from source chapters.