Create an epub Book from Markdown Files

🌱 This post is in the growth phase. It may still be useful as it grows up.

• Put all your markdown files in a in single directory.
  • Not required but it makes everything a lot easier.
• Run the pandoc command over all the files, and use -o to set output path with preferred file extension:
  • pandoc file1.md file2.md file3.md -o my-book.epub
• Metadata is effectively ignored by virtue of being completely overridden by the metadata in the last file. So,
  • Create a single file with metadata, defined with yaml.
  • Know that you need to use a .txt extension, as yaml is not supported.
• Include metadata as last file.
  • pandoc file1.md file2.md metadata.txt -o my-book.epub.
• This command can be added to a bash script:
  • build.sh.
  • prefix with shebang #!/bin/bash.
  • set execution permissions chmod +x build.sh.