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The TLA+ Hyperbook
- derefr 12y agoNot to cast aspersions on either Lamport or the content of the work, but this "hyperbook" would be much more accessible to contributions as a Github repository, and much more accessible to readers as an ePub (or plain hypertext!) The approach here feels more like what you'd come up with to open-source a book's production in the 1980s.
- nmrm2 12y agoI'd assume the book has probably been in the works for a while.
- abhinavg 12y agoIt has been around for a while, but I agree that hundreds of cross-linked PDFs is not the most accessible format.
- zyxley 12y agoA single big HTML file with MathJax and judicious use of semantic tags seems to me like the way to go. Heck, maybe even all Markdown with a good Pandoc build script included.
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- justicezyx 12y agoWell, a great mind like Lamport should not be bother with the mundane of creating the better sharing format. Someone on this forum should do that, probably me? Not likely because I am a latex noob...
- mirimir 12y agoI was expecting maybe some new revelation about the NSA ;)
- mappu 12y ago> Other readers should also work, but it seems that Preview, the default pdf reader on the Mac, does not. That's worrying. Is it common for a LaTeX-generated PDF to not work in this environment?
- zyxley 12y agoWhen "this environment" includes a bajillion separate cross-linked PDFs and other weird stuff that PDFs are just plain not good at, I'm not surprised.