[vtk-developers] VTK Textbook Update

[Bill Lorensen]

Folks,

We have made great progress converting the current online PDF version
of the VTK Textbook. The two efforts include a Latex version led by
Andrew Maclean and a markdown version led by Bill Lorensen. Will
Schroeder provided encouragement and a high resolution PDF of the
textbook. Bernhard Meehan provided us with Latex versions for most of
the equations.

The two versions serve two different goals. The Latex version is
duplicating the original text that was written using Adobe's
Framemaker. The goal is to produce a version with links to figures,
references, equations, examples, etc. Hopefully, by using a more
familiar format (Latex), this version will serve as a base for future
versions of the text.

The Markdown version is an interactive, platform friendly version of
the book. The entire text is available on as a Chapter by Chapter web
site. The figures that exist as VTK Examples are linked to the nightly
output of the regression testing. Also, all vtk classes in the text
are linked to the doxygen descripti0on of the class. Example code that
produces book figures links back to the figure in the text. This
allows easy movement from text to examples and back

The current version of the Latex textbook is here:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lorensen/VTKExamples/master/src/VTKBookLaTex/VTKTextBook.pdf

The alpha version of all Chapters of the Markdown text starts here:
https://lorensen.github.io/VTKExamples/site/VTKBook/01Chapter1/

A more detailed description of the effort is here:
https://lorensen.github.io/VTKExamples/site/VTKBook/

As always, we welcome positive and constructive comments.

Bill
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