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diff --git a/content/sections/00-intro/intro.md b/content/sections/00-intro/intro.md index 169069a..cdc873b 100644 --- a/content/sections/00-intro/intro.md +++ b/content/sections/00-intro/intro.md @@ -1,7 +1,9 @@ # Introduction {#intro} -Bookup^[@bookup] is a set of templates, scripts and workflows for book -authoring in HTML, PDF and other formats. + +Bookup^[@bookup] is a framework for _living books_, composed by a set of +templates, scripts and workflows for book authoring in HTML, PDF and other +formats. It's a modular software component based on [Bookdown][]. @@ -9,6 +11,11 @@ It was created to solve the problem of editing many books simultaneously: Bookup helps to keep an uniform scheme instead of having to implement and fix funcionalities across many repositories in parallel. +Bookup also allows for making these books publicly available as +work-in-progress material ("living books"), as it fully integrates with Git +tags for versioning, a change log to register major changes and RSS/ATOM feeds, +so others can track down new book revisions. + [Bookup][] makes book production similar to working with other codebases. But [Bookup][] is very opinionated. |