Hello, developer. Sorry for stupid question, but I would like to ask: is Deepdwn suitable for writing a book (or at least ideas for it)? After all, this is a text editor (only with cool features). Or is the program not quite suitable for writing a book?

Hi!

Unfortunately, “it depends”.

I think Deepdwn is certainly suitable for the writing part of writing a book, which is the hardest part :)

At the end of writing, you’ll have a markdown file (or collection of markdown files), and then you’ll need to do something.

You could (technically) export these to PDF from Deepdwn, but it has no tools for typesetting or page layout, so that pdf is probably not going to work for you for publication.

You would probably want to have a process to add cover pages, table of contents, etc and then convert that to HTML and then to PDF, or epub, or whatever.

Deepdwn will have more exporting features in the future, and will probably be able to help with this process (ex: by exporting styled/unstyled HTML [edit] this has been added), or integrating with Pandoc if you have it installed, but won’t be able to do everything needed for publication from beginning to end.

Here are some things I found related to markdown for book writing:

• https://pianomanfrazier.com/post/write-a-book-with-markdown/
• https://carlalexander.ca/write-book-markdown/
• https://thorstenball.com/blog/2018/09/04/the-tools-i-use-to-write-books/

I hope that helps!

Thank you so much for sharing your experience on how best to use Deepdwn to write a book. It is also nice to hear that the program will expand its functionality in the future. Also thank you very much for sharing the sources below, this is also valuable information.

I wish you success!