Contained in this repository is my attempt to bring the power of open-souce to my studying for my Junior year's midterms. The process to generate these "study guides" relies on LaTeX, and as such, generating PDFs is a bit convoluted.
First, you'll need to install a LaTeX environment on your computer. If you're running OSX, this is easy, just install MacTeX.
You'll then need a series of packages, each of which are used by documents in this repository during processing.
Luckily, these packages are really easy to install once you have the MacTeX
environment on your system. To install a package, simply run tlmgr install <package> in your shell.
The necessary packages to process all the doucments are listed below:
- mhchem - typeset chemical formulae/equations
- qtree
- tree-drawing macros using bracketed notation
- siunitx - typestting for scientifically notated values
- booktabs - typesetting for tables
- float - improved defaults for tables in LaTeX
PDF generation is done with rubber, which can
be easily installed on OS X with homebrew. To install, simply execute brew install rubber in your shell. Alternatively, you can download and compile the
source yourself, and then use brew link to link up the generated binaries in
your bin/.
To make all of this easy, there is a built in rake task that automates the
compilation of all *.tex files in each sub-directory. That task is marked as
"default", so to run and compile, just hit rake in your shell.
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