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Manuscripts - A Free Book Format - Write Books in Plain Text

Step 1 - The Text

01.txt:

# Story of the Door

Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance, that was
never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in
discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty, dreary, and
yet somehow lovable. At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to
his taste, something eminently human beaconed from his eye;
something indeed which never found its way into his talk, but which
spoke not only in these silent symbols of the after-dinner face, but
more often and loudly in the acts of his life...

Step 2 - Book Info and Table of Contents

book.txt:

title:  Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
year:   1886
author:
  name: Robert Louis Stevenson

contents.txt:

- title: Story of the Door
  path:  01.txt
- title: Search for Mr. Hyde
  path:  02.txt
- title: Dr. Jekyll was Quite at Ease
  path:  03.txt
  ...

That’s it.

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