## Pollen: the book is a program 
A book-publishing system written in [Racket ](http://racket-lang.org ). This is the software I use to publish & maintain my web-based books [Beautiful Racket ](http://beautifulracket.com ), [Practical Typography ](http://practicaltypography.com ), and [Typography for Lawyers ](http://typographyforlawyers.com ).
If you think documents should be programmable, you’
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 free-form markup authoring ](http://pkg-build.racket-lang.org/doc/pollen/third-tutorial.html )
* [Pollen for multiple-output publishing ](http://pkg-build.racket-lang.org/doc/pollen/fourth-tutorial.html )
* [Full docs ](http://pkg-build.racket-lang.org/doc/pollen )
Using Racket 6.3+, install from the command line:
raco pkg install pollen
And update like so:
raco pkg update --update-deps pollen
Official discussion area: https://github.com/mbutterick/pollen-users
## License
MIT
