BookGen - A C# documentation generator

BookGen is a command line toolchain for writing books and documentation in markdown. It was inspired by GitBook. Generaly speeking you can call it a static website generator, but it has some neat features compared to other products.

It is designed to be cross platform, but It's developed and tested under Windows. It features a web based, cross platform Markdown editor.

• MIT Licensed
• Written in C#, targets .NET 6.0
• Extremely fast, compared to GitBook and other NodeJs stuff
• It hasn't got a template engine, so you don't have to learn a new template language. However it's extendable via shortcodes, like wordpress
• Can be extended with Scripting API
• Can be extended with NodeJs, Python, Php Scripts
• Should be cross platform (Only tested & developed on windows)
• Can resize & convert pictures during build.
• Syntax highlighting is rendered during compile for Epub and printable documents.
• Many output formats:
  • Static website with Bootstrap template
  • Printable or Word processor importable plain HTML
  • EPub v. 3.0
  • Wordpress compatible XML export file

To Build and develop you will need:

• Visual Studio 2022 with latest updates - https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/
• .NET 6 SDK - https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download

Getting the repo

git clone https://github.com/webmaster442/BookGen.git
cd BookGen
git submodule init
git submodule update

Documentation

https://github.com/webmaster442/BookGen/wiki