«WriteAt»: my opensource startup on Perl 6 Pod

The «WriteAt» is a free and opensource suite for book writers. It helps making and preparing books for publishing and printing. «WriteAt» uses pod6 as markup language.

"Compared to POD, Perl 6's Pod is much more uniform, somewhat more compact, and considerably more expressive." (S26)

The typical «WriteAt» book template looks like this:

  =TITLE MyBook
  =SUBTITLE My first free book
  =AUTHOR Alex Green
  =DESCRIPTION  Short description of the book
  =begin CHANGES
  Aug 18th 2010(v0.2)[zag]   preface
  
  May 27th 2010(v0.1)[zag]   Initial version
  =end CHANGES
  =CHAPTER Intro
  
  D<Pod> is an easy-to-use markup language with a simple, consistent
  object model underlying the document. Pod can be used for writing language
  documentation, documenting programs and modules, as well as for
  other types of document composition.

As you see it is simple. Because pod6 is extensible, it is possible to split big files into parts:

 =Include src/preface.pod6
 =Include src/basics.pod6

or insert images:

    =Image berries.png

A real book sample, a free book "Everything about Perl 6", can be downloaded from https://github.com/zag/ru-perl6-book.

The current version of «WriteAt» is 0.02. It supports exporting pod6 books to HTML. «WriteAt» is located at https://github.com/zag/writeat and the CPAN distribution is available from here: http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?WriteAt, also available at launchpad.net : https://launchpad.net/~zahatski/+archive/ppa.

How to install «WriteAt» ?

Under Ubuntu:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:zahatski/ppa
        sudo apt-get install writeat

Make book

git clone https://github.com/zag/writeat-tmpl-firstbook.git
         cd writeat-tmpl-firstbook
         make

Reports of bugs, including inaccuracies in the documentation are always welcome.