Just notes on various subjects.
Ignore the Git history and commit messages. I'm using this more as shared storage than source control!
You will need M4. It is installed by default on Linux. On Windows: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/m4.htm
You will need NodeJS. On Ubuntu:
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
Next install the package manager
sudo apt-get install -y npm
Then install the mathjax-node-page module so that we can pre-render
mathjax.
sudo npm install mathjax-node-page
Then I found I needed the latest node version so...
sudo npm install -g n
sudo n latest
But, then later on I got this error message for some reason:
SyntaxError: Block-scoped declarations (let, const, function, class) not yet supported outside strict mode
The answer is that you need to upgrade nodejs. Use sudo apt-get remove nodejs to uninstall, then
download nodejs from https://nodejs.org/dist/v9.9.0/ (use the latest), untar somewhere and put the
bin directory on your path.
# Install NodeJS
cd the-unzipped-nodejs-you-downloaded
sudo cp -R * /usr/local/
sudo npm install mathjax-node-page
Also might need to do some other installs:
# Install required python packages
sudo pip3 install lxml
# Install Java
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linuxuprising/java
sudo apt update
sudo apt install oracle-java10-installer
sudo apt install oracle-java10-set-default
# Install fonts (unlikely you'll need to!)
sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
sudo fc-cache