[vtk-developers] [vtkusers] Request for Feedback: VTK Textbook Strawman

Berk Geveci berk.geveci at kitware.com
Fri Mar 30 09:34:55 EDT 2018


Btw, I meant to say that this is fantastic and I am super thrilled. I am
also kicking myself for not suggesting this to Bill earlier!

On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 9:34 AM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com>
wrote:

> Wouldn't a tool like pandoc allow us to maintain some sort of markdown
> that can be converted to both something online and LaTeX at the same time?
> It would be great to support both as we would be interested in support a
> print-on-demand kind of book on Amazon. There are still people out there
> that like printed books (like me :-) ).
>
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 9:09 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Will, I guess I did not envision a traditional book. This is a web site
>> that is alive. It will present well on all platforms including mobile.
>> Things like indexes aren't really needed.
>>
>> That said if folks want latex so be it. Not me. I can fill my time with
>> other stuff.
>>
>> In the meantime, I'll do some more experiments.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 5:30 AM Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 1:04 PM, Andrew Maclean
>>> <andrew.amaclean at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > I would seriously consider LaTeX for the reasons mentioned.
>>> Additionally, it
>>> > is really well suited for rendering equations.
>>>
>>> I don't know much about mkdocs, but I believe you can configure it to
>>> render LaTeX equations:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs/issues/253#issuecomment-196486412
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Matthew
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