Re:VIEW is an easy-to-use digital publishing system for paper books and ebooks.
Output formats Re:VIEW supports are:
- EPUB
- LaTeX
- InDesign (IDGXML)
- Markdown
- plain text (TOPBuilder Text Markup Language)
Re:VIEW uses its original format('Re:VIEW format') as source files. See doc/format.md.
There are commands generate files directly.
- review-epubmaker: generate EPUB file.
- review-pdfmaker: generate PDF file using LaTeX (TeXLive).
- review-textmaker: generate text files.
- review-webmaker: generate Web pages.
- review-idgxmlmaker: generate InDesign XML files.
And some useful commands.
- review-init: create a project.
- review-compile: compile Re:VIEW format files.
- review-vol: figure out size of Re:VIEW files.
- review-index: generate index with various format.
- review-preproc: preprocessor.
- review-epub2html: generate single HTML file from EPUB for CSS typesetting.
- review-update: update project files.
Install gem yourself as:
$ gem install review
Or build from source:
$ git clone https://github.com/kmuto/review.git
$ cd review
$ rake install
Or add the ./bin directory to your $PATH:
$ echo "export PATH=PATH_OF_REVIEW/bin:$PATH" >> ~/.profile
$ review-init hello
$ cd hello
$ (... add and edit *.re file, config.yml and catalog.yml ...)
$ rake epub ## generating EPUB
$ rake pdf ## generating PDF (Requirement TeXLive)
$ rake text ## generating texts
$ rake web ## generating Web pages
$ rake idgxml ## generating InDesign XML files
$ rake vivliostyle ## generating PDF using Vivliostyle-CLI (Requirement Vivliostyle-CLI)
For further information, see doc/quickstart.md
- Wiki pages: https://github.com/kmuto/review/wiki
- doc/* files (in English and Japanese)
- GitHub: https://github.com/kmuto/review
- Fork the project.
- Make your feature addition or bug fix.
- Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
- Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
- Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.
Main part of Re:VIEW is applied GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). See COPYING file.
Exception:
- doc/, samples/: MIT License. See LICENSE file.
- jumoline.sty, vendor/jumoline: The LaTeX Project Public License. See LPPL file.
- plistings.sty, vendor/plistings: MIT License. See LICENSE file.
- gentombow.sty, vendor/gentombow: BSD License. See LICENSE file.
- jsbook.cls, vendor/jsclasses: BSD License. See LICENSE file.
Copyright (c) 2006-2024 Minero Aoki, Kenshi Muto, Masayoshi Takahashi, Masanori Kado.
