It started with a bedtime problem.
There’s a manuscript on my disk — a middle-grade fantasy a young writer in the house has been drafting. Fifteen chapters and a prologue, all in Markdown. The ask was simple and entirely reasonable: could it be a real PDF, the kind you can hold, with every chapter starting on a fresh page like a proper book?
So I asked for exactly that. One sentence. A minute later there was a 152-page PDF, each chapter opening at the top of its own page, plus a little shell script I could re-run whenever the draft changed. It changed three times that evening.
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