Re: [Fhsst-authors] Re: [Fhsst-admin-priv] Re: Free High School Science Texts

[Peter Hutnick]

Sam Halliday wrote:

> hi peter!
>
> this sounds like a very good arrangement for the lot of us!
>
> Peter Hutnick wrote:
>  
>
> > My two big questions are
> > 1. Specifically what content do you need?
> >    
>
> at the moment physics is in a near-completion state; proof reading and
> touching up is the most important. maths is in early stages... mark or
> spence will know what needs done exactly, so one or the other will
> reply.
I poked around in the CVS a bit.  I'm pretty confused about the 
structure of the CVS.  I guess that algebra.tex is abandoned?  Is 
hsalgebra.tex going to include multiple years of material?

I am being held back somewhat by the fact that Savannah is behaving 
erratically today.

> we use purely LaTeX with any Figures being done in EPS (or a LaTeX adon,
> like pstricks). we have a lot of BMP/other type contributions which we
> have to convert, but we would rather keep everythign consistent by using
> the same tools for figures across the book.
>
> i read that you use LyX to make your LaTeX... be warned that LyX,
> although it produces LaTeX output, it uses an awful lot of "internal"
> stuff in its processing... and for example, if you were to import one of
> our files, change a single line, and export to LaTeX again... the actual
> .tex file may be changed quite considerably! 
>  
I'm looking at "TeX for the Impatient" right now.  For my project 
(La)TeX with a text editor just is not an option.  We'll see how things 
work out.

> MathML is maybe a bit too optimistic, but in a few years when browsers
> support it and the fonts are free... it'll be revolutionary for maths!
>  
Have you seen http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/fonts/?  Worked 
okay with http://www.w3.org/Math/XSL/csmall2.xml which is the W3C's 
"more complex" MathML test page.

I have one more question.  What TeX environment do you guys use.  I'm 
stuck with Windows at work and no Internet connection at home (where I 
run GNU/Linux).  I made a dvi from "hsalgebra.tex" with the Cygwin 
version of LaTeX and it was completely broken.

-Peter