All the reStructuredText (RST) source files for the book with this title. The book has been actively written and updated since August 2010.
pid-book
, somewhere on your computer. The location is referred to /location/of/pid-book/
in the example below.figures
in the text below.Clone the figures
repository, preferably somewhere outside or next-to this repository.
Softlink the figures
repo so that it is visible as the directory of the same name, but within pid-book
. You could also just move the figures
repo into this one, but that is hackish.
ln -s /location/of/figures /location/of/pid-book/figures
make clean
make html
make latexpdf
Step 4 is a quick process to generate HTML, and is a good check if you have all the settings correct.
Step 5, to create the PDF version, can take around 5 to 10 minutes to completely compile all references, cross-references and index. You can compare your PDF to the one on the website, https://learnche.org/pid/PID.pdf, to see if you successfully managed to reproduce it.
Perhaps you would like to improve a section, customize the book for a course you are teaching, delete topics you don't want? Whatever the reason, you are allowed to do so. Everything provided to you is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.
But that means, I still hold the copyright on the parts I've written. Your adaptations are allowed, and in fact encouraged, but your changes must be distributed under the same, or similar, conditions as this license.
Surprise me!
Let me know what you have done, and I am always interested in feedback/comments/exercises/contributions. You can provide that feedback here please.