Markdown Book

A tool for making books, whitepapers, essays and other long documents out of a collection of Markdown files. It can:

• Collate multiple Markdown files into one document in the process
  • Adjusting all heading depths
  • Optionally adding section numbering
• Add an indented table of contents (TOC)
• Generate a PDF or just a bigger Markdown file

Installation

Install the tool with:

npm install markdown-book

or run it with:

npx markdown-book

Using It

Create a JSON5 document containing:

{
  title: "A Book About Nothing",
  toc: true,
  number: true,
  files: ["./part1.md", "./part2.md", "./part3.md"],
}

• title will be the top level, single #, for the book.
• toc if true will include a table of contents after the title.
• number if true will insert a section number in all headings in the format 1.1.1, separated by a colon :.
• files is an array of files relative to the .json5 file.

The tool expects ATX headings (leading #'s). If you have Setext headings (- or = underlines) they will be ignored.

Any images that are references by local file paths will be adjusted to the new relative path to the image from the output .md file. URL image references will not be modified.