[vtk-developers] VTK Textbook and User's Guide now available for download

[David Gobbi]

The best way to ensure broad collaboration on the textbook is to wikify
it.  After all, this is exactly what wikis were designed for: they make it
easy to track changes, they provide discussion space that's directly linked
to the content, there's a low barrier to entry, no big files to download,
etc.

I know that wiki collaboration doesn't always work out as planned, but
that's not a failure of the technology, it's a people issue and other
technology wouldn't do better.

 - David

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Andrew Maclean <andrew.amaclean at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Nice.
> Personally I think LaTex is the way to go. There is even a cross-platform
> open source "GUI" called LyX http://www.lyx.org/Home which is available.
> Aditionally, you can even use CMake to automate the process, see:
> https://cmake.org/Wiki/CMakeUserUseLATEX
>
> I should be able to help with the LaTex stuff.
>
> Regards
>     Andrew
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Will Schroeder <will.schroeder at kitware.com>
>> To: vtk-developers <vtk-developers at vtk.org>, vtkusers <vtkusers at vtk.org>
>> Cc: ParaView Developers <paraview-developers at paraview.org>,
>> insight-users at itk.org, insight-developers at itk.org, paraview at paraview.org
>> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 13:54:58 -0400
>> Subject: [vtk-developers] VTK Textbook and User's Guide now available for
>> download
>> Kitware is releasing the VTK Textbook and VTK User's Guide for PDF
>> download. Follow the links below to a landing page where you can buy a
>> printed version, or download a PDF.
>>
>> Longer term, the plan is to convert these books to LaTeX (from
>> Framemaker) and place the content into an open repository. The first step
>> is to mostly duplicate what exists now; eventually we have the ambitious
>> goal to completely rewrite / recombine / rethink the books. For example,
>> using VTK.js (under development now) to offer web interaction with examples
>> etc. We can certainly use the talents of the community to take this
>> challenge on, so if you are interested please let me know.
>>
>> The Visualization Toolkit An Object-Oriented Approach to 3D Graphics (4th
>> ed.)
>> http://www.vtk.org/vtk-textbook/
>> pdf: http://www.kitware.com/products/books/VTKTextbook.pdf
>>
>> *The VTK User’s Guide*
>> http://www.vtk.org/vtk-users-guide/
>> pdf: http://www.kitware.com/products/books/VTKUsersGuide.pdf
>>
>> Best, please let me know if there are issues or concerns.
>> W
>>
>
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