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<meta name="description" content="A book about education, technology, mathematics, computers and programming for humans."/>
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<meta name="author" content="Shiv Shankar Dayal" />
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<h2>Tools Used to Write This Book</h2>
<p>
This entire book has been typed using raw HTML5 technologies.
I have used <code>Emacs</code> with <code>web-mode</code>.
Material design has been used and I do not force a font on
users except for headings. You can set default font in your
browser and if you do not set then it will be rendered mostly
in a <code>serif</code> font.
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For rendering Mathematics, I have used MathJax. Since pages
are small it does not really matter as very little math will
be present on single page. I have tried to keep the
UI sane and responsive in nature. But the problem is when
I edit the pages they do cros <code>A4</code> paper size.
Keeping it in <code>HTML</code> is important as it can be
scanned and indexed by a search-engine. That is why I will
not prepare an index as that would be a herculean task.
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For preparing images I have mostly used raw <code>SVG</code>,
which are hand-coded. For some images I have used POV-Ray, which
is a rayracer program.
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<p>
Great folks of Mozilla have written great documentation on <code>HTML5,
CSS3, SVG</code> along with Math authoring. For now bear the MathJax
version. Eventually, I will run all this through <code>phantomjs</code>
and render all math server side making the load blazing fast.
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You would ask me what about index. This book will have no index.
I rely on search engines to generate that.
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<p>
There is one more reason to use raw HTML5, CSS3 and SVG is that
frameworks come and go. Also, I wanted to learn these technologies
in depth. So you see it is kind of selfish.
I did use <code>Sphinx</code> documentation tool but recently
with version 1.7.0 release several plugins broke. Then, I realized
why Knuth froze his typesetting engine <code>τεχ</code> in the
sense that new features are not allowed.
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<h2>Acknowledgements</h2>
<p>
To all those who tried to do good things by helping others.
Namely, Richard M. Stallman, Donald Knuth etc. I will fill this
later.
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