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If you want to create books, Asciidoctor (for PDF/ebook) + Antora (to publish them on the web), are the way to go. Not related, just a happy user who used Asciidoc for the last 20 years to maintain product docs.

Why? because Asciidoc/tor gives you a lot more:

- a syntax with callouts, tables, indexes, comments, notes and everything you may need in a book

- macro expansion

- a ton of complex diagrams via PlantUML (veeery useful!) that you can keep inline

- a ton of output formats, including "real" paper books via Docbook.



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