The core parser for the Bayeux document markup language, optimised for long-form documents. Generators are also provided for HTML, LaTeX and PanDoc

An optimized Jekyll plugin providing (nearly) full support of LaTeX.

Bookmaker provides authors a free, ruby-based production toolchain for self-published paper and electronic books using the LaTeX document preparation system.

Use Branch Raker to maintain a build history for each branch. Originally created for LaTeX projects, but useful for anything that needs to be 'compiled'.

Book boilerplate to generate books as EPUB, MOBI, and PDF from simple Markdown text files. Or from HTML. Or from LaTeX. Or mixed.

http://devel.softeng.ox.ac.uk/trac/softeng/wiki/Utilities/RakeLatex

WTeX converts blended source written both in Wiki and TeX into a valid LaTeX source. Also, binary 'wikitex' will prepare templates & Makefile for making the final PDF.

My default setup for writing text documents, utilizing pandoc, erb, markdown and latex

This is a gem for generating files/projects using recipes. The default recipes included ruby python and latex files. Erb template supported.