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Funny coincidence! I started doing something similar a couple weeks back -- trying to recreate the SICP LaTeX files so that I could generate my own beautiful P
by adbge 16y ago
Funny coincidence!
I started doing something similar a couple weeks back -- trying to recreate the SICP LaTeX files so that I could generate my own beautiful PDFs, instead of using the slightly wonky HTML edition.
I even sent an email to Hal Abelson asking after the original TeX files, figuring it was a shot in the dark. I was blown away when he sent me a response... in less than an hour! He told me that he didn't think they even had a copy of it anymore, and that he didn't think it would be very useful in any case, but it was still really cool to get an email from a programming legend who has touched so many lives.
Too bad I forgot to ask for an autograph! ;)
- kylec 16y agoI wonder what format MIT Press has the book in - if it's a ps file or similar it should be possible to at least convert that into a PDF that looks exactly like the printed book.
- marcomonteiro 16y agoTrue that would make it easy to produce a PDF but ePub is more flexible (and enjoyable) on the iPad than a PDF. Which is why the original author (from GitHub) created it.
- gnosis 16y agoWhen I got really in to LaTeX some time back, I manually typeset a 220 page programming book from an HTML edition available for free on the web. It took me about 100 hours to do. SICP is about twice as long, so I'd guess manually typesetting it should take about 200 hours.
- krzyk 16y agoThe biggest problem for me is not the actual text, but the graphics, it would be great to convert them to some vector and MathML format
- gnosis 16y agoI just took a browse through my copy of SICP and see that the graphics are just diagrams. Crisp and clear diagrams. They are perfect for conversion to vector format using Inkscape's "Trace Bitmap" feature. Doing this should take you less than a minute per diagram.