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

[Bill Lorensen]

pandoc is not perfect, but I did use it to convert the book's pdf to
markdown doc, docx and txt.


On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 6:34 AM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:
> 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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