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Any chance of getting a PDF version? #106
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First, thank you so much, the book looks extremely useful!
The online version looks amazing, but there's one minor issue: I prefer reading books away from computer, using my E-Ink device. I can imaging that a lot of people have similar preferences.
So a PDF version of the book (or at least instructions how to make one) would be very helpful.
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wenkokke commentedon Dec 2, 2018
This should be possible, and I have created similar setups in the past – where .lagda source compiles to a website and to a PDF – but we're not currently working on this.
wadler commentedon Dec 3, 2018
Roman, As Wen says, we're not working on this currently. If you would like to add a way to do this to the repository, that would be most welcome.
Kwezan commentedon Dec 7, 2018
Ways to do this are relatively simple. You can use ready-made applications such as a Adobe Acrobat DC, which quickly and easy translates HTML pages into pdf files or even the PdfCrowd tool (https://pdfcrowd.com).
wenkokke commentedon Dec 14, 2018
@Kwezan Those tools might work, but they'll be translating the HTML to a PDF. Since we have Markdown source for the book, and we can translate the literate Agda parts to LaTeX using
agda, I feel we can do much better if we set up a script which runs the book through LaTeX.ice1000 commentedon Jan 10, 2019
FYI the 2.6.0 release of Agda will bring a new feature that translates the Agda codes in
.lagda.mdfiles into HTML and leave other parts preserved (so the output file can be post-processed by a markdown renderer and become nice HTML. Example: https://ice1000.org/lagda/MuGenHackingToTheGate.html).wenkokke commentedon Jan 10, 2019
@ice1000 Awesome news! That'll be very useful! Unfortunately, at this point, there's a couple of other features of
agda2htmlthat we've come to depend on, but we might be able to switch over to just using Agda in time!ice1000 commentedon Jan 11, 2019
Wow, you have
agda2html. I didn't know about that.What features? Can you elaborate?
Maybe it'll be helpful for improving Agda's HTML backend, too.
wenkokke commentedon Jan 11, 2019
@ice1000 Sorry, it's not exceedingly well-documented. It has the ability to:
to make the code more readable and look more like Haskell or Idris
if it's a symbol from the standard library,
create a link to the online HTML documentation of the Agda standard library
[...][DeBruijn],to the appropriate url, based on the local filesystem
ice1000 commentedon Jan 11, 2019
In Agda 2.6.0 you'll have
Related docs: https://people.inf.elte.hu/divip/AIMXXVIII.pdf
ice1000 commentedon Jan 11, 2019
This is interesting! We haven't thought about that yet. Good idea!
ice1000 commentedon Jan 11, 2019
Modules! Why not use
import TargetModule using ()as a "link"? 😉isovector commentedon Nov 3, 2019
I'd love a PDF version of this!