Quire

Quire is a modern, multiformat publishing framework designed to create books as authoritative and enduring as print, and as vibrant and feature-rich as the web, from a single set of plain text files. All without ever signing-up for an account, paying a fee, or setting up and maintaining a complicated server.

Quire is centered around Hugo, and uses PrinceXML for PDF generation and pandoc for EPUBs. Because it's a static site generator, the the sites are all stored as git repos which are automatically built via Netlify or GitHub Pages; or users can also deploy locally if they choose to.

Quire books are scholarly, visual, and built for discoverability and longevity. They feature:

Page-level citation
Footnotes
Bibliographies
Figure images and image groups
Zooming images and maps
Video and audio embeds
Dynamic tables of contents and menus
Full-text search
Responsive web design
Web accessibility and SEO optimized
Outputs to web, PDF, and EPUB formats

Technologies Used

Static Site Generator: Hugo
PDF Generation: PrinceXML
EPUB Generation: Pandoc
Deployment: Netlify, GitHub Pages
Version Control: Git repositories
Content: Markdown files

Key Features

Multiformat publishing (web, PDF, EPUB)
Scholarly publishing features
Full-text search capabilities
Responsive design
Accessibility compliance
SEO optimization
No account or server requirements