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12 years ago Hi Jean! Thanks a lot for all the fixes, I really appreciate it. As well as the encouragement.
I am not very happy with the Preface, I have to improve it, I've been thinking about it lately, it's a little too rough.
The long lines that you found are remains of my older system, when I used my own xml to create latex or html. I gave up on that long time ago and just wrote a simple script to convert the xml to rst, but didn't have time to polish it better.
The idea of the book is to stream line the process of having physics/math notes more accessible and open source them, using git, github, sphinx and a very liberal license, so that people can just take it and do whatever they want with it. It's still in its infancy in a sense that a lot of important physics fields are missing, but on the other hand, a lot of the basic things are in place already. Also with the printed book I want to pretty much do it as a software release, each release is simple a printed book. So far I did only one release. :) It's a lot of work to write a book and get it printed out, so my idea is that allowing people to easily contribute, little things at the beginning, my hope is that eventually I will pull it off as a regular open source project where it would be easier for people to contribute rather than to write their own book. We'll see how it goes.
Plus of course, I like to have everything explicitly derived, while sites like Wikipedia or MathWorld only show the formulas, usually without any derivation.
Really just wanted to have an excuse to tell you, really cool project, impressive use of reStructuredText & Sphinx in a non-IT field.