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SICP
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This is a PDF version of "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, and Julie Sussman. It is a further development of the Unofficial Texinfo Format (UTF), which was originally derived from the HTML version at The MIT Press.
Biggest change in this revision (2.andresraba5) is the conversion to LaTeX, which opens the door to design and customization possibilities that the massive CTAN archive enables. Also, the latest typesetting engine XeTeX can be used, along with the Unicode and OpenType goodness it brings.
Source
The src
directory contains both Texinfo and LaTeX sources. To recompile the book, go there and enter:
$ make
The file preamble.tex
contains all the configuration and style declarations. Note that the LaTeX file sicp.tex
will be generated on the fly, overwriting the previous version. To keep sicp.texi
and sicp.tex
in sync, I make changes to sicp.texi,
which is already a hybrid of Texinfo and LaTeX code. This is fine, because all non-Texinfo content remains unchanged by the script.
Chances for successful compilation are increased if you have almost complete installation of recent TeX Live distribution (the pdf here is compiled with 2012 release). The needed OpenType fonts must be installed in the operating system. You also need Inkscape to recreate image PDFs from SVGs.
If compilation stops with "LaTeX Error: Too many unprocessed floats.", you could try to increase the width and height of text area in preamble. Newer TeX Live or updated fonts could result in different character metrics, so that some figures no longer fit. The problem is reported in issue #5.
To clean up after the build:
$ make clean
This deletes the temporary files written during sicp.pdf creation, including sicp.pdf itself. Move it up to root directory if you want to keep it.
To remove all the generated PDFs and auxiliary files in the whole src
tree:
$ make clean-all
Acknowledgements
- Lytha Ayth
- Neil Van Dyke
- Gavrie Philipson
- J. E. Johnson
- Mingshen Sun
- holomorph
License
The files sicp.texi, sicp.tex, sicp.pdf,
and the diagrams in directory src/fig
are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (cc by-sa).
The script files ex-fig-ref.pl, survey.rb,
and texi-to-latex.pl
are licensed under GNU General Public License version 3 (for details, see src/LICENSE).
Sister project
A new HTML5 version is out, bringing the advantages of adjustable font size and reflowable text to mobile reading.