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junzis / the-1090mhz-riddle

The book about decoding Mode-S and ADS-B data
http://mode-s.org
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please re-instate "edit on github" #26

Closed espinielli closed 6 years ago

espinielli commented 6 years ago

I think that the "edit on github" facility was a big way to lower the barrier for feedback and review/correction contributions. Without it, the time needed to set things up is just increasing the time/burden and lowers the probability to get any feedbacks both from (somewhat) skilled geeks and aviation knowledgeable people. My 2 cents. 😄

espinielli commented 6 years ago

Oooops I see you converted the source to LaTeX!!! So that even makes it more difficult to ever contribute from anybody 👿 ! I have been/am a LaTeX user but with the tools you are using (pandoc) I see little benefits to have it used for something that looks after open source contributions...

Please note this is a personal opinion, and a humble suggestion, and not a criticism on your excellent work.

PS: Personally I have been enjoying markdown a lot and resorted to LaTeX only for very specific tasks... (For example I have even published a paper using R Markdown [which uses pandoc behind the scenes] via a rticle package which supports IEEE Transactions template!!!)

junzis commented 6 years ago

I would like to compile the book as nice PDF as well. In this case, there is no better format than latex which generates consistent PDF across the platforms. Now I can simply use make pdf or make html to create either.

I will try to add the "edit on github" link back. There are very few difference in modifying .rst or .tex. The syntaxes are minial as well.

junzis commented 6 years ago

fixed in 730ff70 now