A book-publishing system written in Racket. This is the software used to publish & maintain the web-based books Practical Typography, Typography for Lawyers, and the forthcoming Beautiful Racket.

If you think documents should be programmable, you’ll love it.
If not, you can move along.

Pollen gives you access to a full programming language (Racket) with a text-based syntax that makes it easy to embed code within your documents.

• Quick tour
• Pollen as a text preprocessor (for CSS, etc.)
• Pollen for Markdown authoring
• Pollen for free-form markup authoring
• Pollen for multiple-output publishing
• Full docs

Using Racket 6.0+, install from the command line:

raco pkg install pollen

And update like so:

raco pkg update --update-deps pollen

Official mailing list: http://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pollenpub