See the wiki for a project description

DIRECTORY STRUCTURE

year/part/chapter/section/post-id.tex

year is the four-digit year of the original post

After very little thought, I've decided to go with the divisions on the MHF site itself. Descriptions for chapters, etc. are also taken from Wikipedia. At the moment, we'll only be dividing into three levels, but sub-sections will be added if beneficial.

The idea is that if it's in the calculus sub-forum, it's probably calculus. If something's obviously not or you can't justify its inclusion in that section, place it in the most appropriate section.

post-id is the original post id on the mathhelpforum.com web site

SOFTWARE REQURIED

• latex and associated packages (uses times, url, amssymb, graphicx, varioref, geometry, framed, color, iwona, sectsty, cclicenses, multienum, cancel and makeidx)
• asymptote

So far, I haven't been able to find a DVI viewer that is able to correctly display the cclicenses glyphs.

DOWNLOADING A SNAPSHOT

You can download a snapshot from the github web site: http://github.com/lovek323/mhfbook

COMPILING

In one of the year subdirectories (e.g., 2005), execute

./build.sh

This will create a book-name.dvi (e.g., 2005.dvi) file, which you can view in your favourite dvi viewer (e.g., xdvi).

PLEASE

• Do not commit compiled files (eps, pdf, dvi, etc.). Only commit the source files. Anyone with a properly set-up system will be able to compile the files and we'll release compiled versions at appropriate milestones.
• Give good commit messages if you can be bothered.
• Create pull requests for your changes (doesn't need to be in a separate branch)

PROBLEMS

If there's a question you're excluding for a good reason, add it to the PROBLEMS file.