standardebooks mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• se

Projektgeschichte

The official repository describes the project as the toolset Standard Ebooks uses to produce its ebook files, including basic setup, text processing, and build tools. Rather than being a general ebook reader or library, it is a production toolkit for contributors working in the Standard Ebooks source layout.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The toolset is distributed for contributors and developers through Homebrew on macOS and pipx-oriented instructions on Linux and other Unix-like systems. The README also documents shell completions and editable installs, placing it squarely in command-line contributor workflow rather than end-user publishing software.

Wie es verwendet wird

Installing the package provides the `se` command. Common commands include `se lint`, `se build`, `se clean`, `se typogrify`, `se prepare-release`, and many small text or EPUB maintenance utilities.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Package maintainers care about it because it turns a highly opinionated publishing workflow into a reproducible CLI. It is a concrete example of a project-specific toolchain that still earns a system package because contributors need the same executable, completions, dependencies, and config paths.

Zeitleiste

• 2017: Public GitHub issue history shows the toolset in active use for Standard Ebooks EPUB production.
• 2026: README documents Homebrew installation, pipx installation, shell completions, and configuration paths.

Related projects

• The tools are tied to the Standard Ebooks corpus and source directory format, and optionally integrate Ace checking during `se build --check`.

Quellen

• https://github.com/standardebooks/tools README: describes the toolset, `se` executable, installation paths, commands, corpus workflow, and configuration.
• https://standardebooks.org/manual/: Standard Ebooks manual references `se` tools such as `se lint`, `se clean`, and `se build-manifest`.