kamon/modern-cli-stack

This project is a template that helps you turn plain text files into polished, print-ready PDFs, like a mini publishing pipeline for technical books or documentation. It comes with a complete example: a 13-chapter, ~20-page PDF about modern command-line tools. You can read that example to see how the system works, then swap in your own writing to produce your own PDF. At its core, the build system takes Markdown files (a simple way to format text) and converts them into a professional-looking PDF using a tool called Pandoc and a styling template called Eisvogel. You control things like the title, author, and version through simple configuration files. A single build script ties everything together, so you only need to learn one command to generate your document. It also includes helpful features like a "watch mode" that automatically rebuilds your PDF whenever you edit a file, and quality-check hooks that run before each build to catch missing information, excessive word counts, or writing patterns associated with AI-generated text. Someone might use this if they want to self-publish a technical book, create professional documentation, or produce a structured PDF guide without dealing with complex design software. For example, a founder could use it to build a polished product manual, or a technical writer could draft a multi-chapter guide and generate a versioned, print-ready file each time they push an update. A notable aspect of this template is its built-in automation. It includes a setup that builds your PDF automatically every time you push changes to GitHub, and a helper script that bumps the version number and tags the release for you. This means you get a reliably versioned artifact, like "my-book-v1.2.pdf," with metadata automatically injected into the file, all without manual formatting work.