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An update to David Joyner's edits of William Graville's calculus textbook.
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Mathbook Suggestion #1

Open chivalry opened 9 years ago

chivalry commented 9 years ago

Rob Beezer left the following comment on the sage-edu announcement post:

If the following are important for your project,

  • Consistency between PDF and HTML versions
  • Standard notation
  • Easy-to-navigate HTML version
  • Automated testing of Sage code
  • Eventual no-effort versions for the Sage Notebook and Sage Math Cloud
  • Avoiding a lot of LaTeX idiosyncracies

then you might want to be an early adopter of MathBook XML for authoring your project. There are some experienced folks (including myself) on the Google Group who can help you over the rough patches.

http://mathbook.pugetsound.edu/

David Farmer then followed up with:

I converted the LaTeX source to this HTML version, which you will find is a lot better than the old version from latex2html:

http://sl2x.aimath.org/development/dcandsage/html/chapter1x.html

If the Sage in the book is just going to be words on a page, then having LaTeX as the source may be adequate. But if you want to automatically generate Sage cells or a Sage notebook, then your best option would be to convert to Mathbook XML (MBX), as described in Rob's post.

I have been thinking about modifying my code to convert to MBX instead of HTML, and would consider using this calculus book as a test case.

Posted here solely to keep documentation of conversation with github project. I'll looking into Matchbook before beginning development.

chivalry commented 9 years ago

The more I read about MathBook the more interested I am. I think I might try one chapter as a test (chapter 2, since it's nearly finished in the LaTeX format and has a good sample of nearly everything).