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## Pollen: the book is a program
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A book-publishing system written in [Racket](http://racket-lang.org). Unstable. Incomplete. Et cetera. Its becoming more civilized. But this is the actual software I use to publish & maintain my web-based book [Buttericks Practical Typography](http://practicaltypography.com).
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If you think documents should be programmable, youll 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](http://pkg-build.racket-lang.org/doc/pollen/quick-tour.html)
* [Pollen as a text preprocessor (for CSS, etc.)](http://pkg-build.racket-lang.org/doc/pollen/first-tutorial.html)
* [Pollen for Markdown authoring](http://pkg-build.racket-lang.org/doc/pollen/second-tutorial.html)
* [Pollen for XML-style authoring](http://pkg-build.racket-lang.org/doc/pollen/third-tutorial.html)
* [Full docs](http://pkg-build.racket-lang.org/doc/pollen)
Using Racket 6.0+, install from the command line:
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raco pkg install pollen
And update like so:
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raco pkg update --update-deps pollen