The Pier Book offers this pretty much out of the box.

Doru


On 25 Jul 2012, at 11:22, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:

> Hi 
> 
> To support the publication in pdf and html directly, plus let people not to 
> bother about latex, 
> I would really to experiment the following for the next chapters of books.
> I do not know well markdown but I would like to know if the following makes 
> sense.
> 
>       I would like to see if we can use markdown (plus some extensions for in 
> text annotation, figure definition)
>       as pivot language and to be able to generate latex and html from it.
> 
> From a simple analysis of current chapter here are the needs:
> 
> structure
>       title (with ref)
>       section (with ref) 
>       subsection
>       paragraph
>       itemize/enumerate
>       code snippet (with ref)
>       figure with caption and ref
> 
> inside a text area
>       link
>       code 
>       index
>       comment for editor
>       citation
>       reference
> 
> I probably miss some of them but this is the core and we can reduce the 
> number from the latex stand point. 
> What do you think? Does markdown support the item above. 
> Is the petitMarkdown parser working? Because I would like to write a visitor 
> that generates the latex we use for the book.  
> 
> I would like to use Zinc documentation as a test.
> 
> Stef
> 
> 

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