This repository contains the source code for the APEX Calculus textbook.
APEX Calculus was originally written in LaTeX; this version of the book uses https://pretextbook.org.
To build the book, use of the PreTeXt CLI is recommended.
Note that the build time is quite long, and may exceed the time allowed using GitHub codespaces. (If you're building on Windows, make sure your computer is not set to sleep after an hour!)
Preparation for generating APEX Calculus from source:
Software requirements:
pip install pretextbook)Note: ImageMagick may be needed, but can probably be avoided.
Older versions of the PreTeXt CLI also require pdf2svg to build HTML, but soon this will not be required.
Configuration:
publication/publication.ptx, change the baseurl to the URL where your copy will be hosted, and set the webwork server to your local server.style folder, and add <xsl>style/custom-style.xsl</xsl> tags to the appropriate targets in the project.ptx file, where you should of course replace custom-style.xsl with whatever you named your style file.<xsl>...</xsl> tags in project.ptx to point to a newer version of one of the PreTeXt XSL files than the one that ships with the CLI. (This is not officially supported, so use with caution.)To build HTML, run pretext build html
To build a version without videos, run pretext build html-novideo
To build PDF, run pretext build latex.
The following variations are also available:
pretext build latex-novideo: omit QR code links to videospretext build latex-print: black and white, for print on demandpretext build latex-print-novideo: black and white, with no video linkspretext build latex-color-print: in color, but two-sided layout for printingpretext build latex-color-print-novideo: as above, but without QR codes for videosDo not build PDF directly. Most of the PDF design is now automated, but you may need to adjust the placement of some figures, add page breaks, etc.
At this time, EPUB generation is not fully supported.