Tome is a markup language and associated tool suite released under an open source license intended for authors, primarily authors of novels and other relatively simple “chapter books”. It is a command line tool. Tome documents are written as plain text files. You can use whatever plaintext editor you wish.
Tome offers a simple and unobtrusive markup language that allows the author to focus on the writing instead of the formatting and styling.
The tool suite parses your markup and generate output in a number of different formats including EPUB, text, and LaTeX (from which you can use the standard LaTeX tool chains to produce DVI, Postscript, or PDF).
Key Features
- Relatively small set of markup elements which are entirely related to content or structure.
- Designed to be simple and quick to pick up.
- Deliberately not very flexible in terms of markup. There are no macros, no custom definitions, no settings: so the author concentrates on writing.
- Block markups – markups that may apply to large blocks of text and may contain paragraph breaks within them. These include quotations, footnotes, and preformatted text.
- Markups that may apply to large blocks of text and may contain paragraph breaks within them.
- Supported syntaxes: XML, Tome-OTL, and Tome-Flow.
- Supported formats (output): XML, EPUB, LaTeX.
Website: bitbucket.org/bmearns/tome
Support:
Developer: Brian Mearns
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3 or later
Tome is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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