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bkamins / The-Julia-Express

A concise Julia language introductory manual for programmers.
MIT License
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Live HTML version of the book? #7

Closed tseemann closed 5 years ago

tseemann commented 5 years ago

It would be great if a HTML version of the book was online, say at The-Julia-Express.github.io using Github Pages.

I'm not sure what the state of the art of Latex to HTML is, I last used latex2html in 2002.

This would make it easier for people with vision difficulties to read it in a flow like manner.

bkamins commented 5 years ago

I will try to check it out. However, for me to understand the issue better, can you please comment more what is the problem with PDF? You can have a "continuous reading" mode in PDF and then a viewer allows you to scroll the whole text (without "jumping" at page breaks).

kartoffelkage commented 5 years ago

If you're looking for HTML do you can reflow the page, try Pandoc.

pandoc -i julia_express.tex -f latex -t html5 -s -o julia_express.html No fancy styling, but that might even be a plus in this case.

bkamins commented 5 years ago

An excellent point. Thank you. I have just checked that the output looks OK. I am closing it and adding the instruction to the manual (@tseemann - if you have some more comments please reopen the issue).

tseemann commented 5 years ago

OK thank you. PDF reflow is terrible. I can control fonts and read much better with HTML.