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Is there a guide to the gamebook markup format you are using anywhere?

I can see and get most of the information from the examples, but it would be helpful to have dedicated documentation.

See the graphs in examples:

dot -Tpng doc.dot doc.png
Error: doc.dot: syntax error in line 2 near '.'

Hwo does the input format look like and when is it ready?

Any plans to port to python 3?

A single wall of text looks awful. Is there any way to break the text into passages? (LaTeX output)

Too much of the work on gamebookformat goes into just formatting text and generating images, things that many other tools already do better. It would be better to focus on the gamebook-specific parts (numbering and shuffling sections, verifying links) and use some other formatting tool to handle all the low-level work of generating various output formats.

There are already great tools like twine for playing digital gamebooks. While the old gamebookformat javascript player does the job it is rather crude. There is already twine2-export, sort of. It would be possible to export directly to for instance the same html+json format that twine2 exports to.