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ashton314 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Pollen: A publishing system written in Racket

Butterick is a sharp guy. I absolutely love one of the books he made with Pollen: Practical Typography http://practicaltypography.com/

Pollen seems like a power tool; my needs are largely met by Scribble, but I’d like to get more comfortable with Pollen.

forty 8 months ago [–]

Can it generate PDF / e-books? The author seems to be against both, at least for their own books, but my e-book reader cannot read websites conveniently.

owl_vision 8 months ago | [–]

https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/fourth-tutorial.html#(pa...

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