Re: Python book
"Andrew Whitworth" <[email protected]>
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Actually, I dug around a little bit at http:/www.thinkpython.com and found both LaTex and HTML (!!!) source code for this. It's available in 21 HTML pages. If somebody else wants to upload the raw HTML to a book, I'll run my bot over it and convert it all to wikitext. I've created an outline for it at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Think_Python --Andrew Whitworth On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Andrew Whitworth <[email protected]> wrote: > I dont know of any way to convert a PDF, unfortunately. Maybe we could > contact the author and see if they have the source (TeX or whatever) > that was used to generate the PDF in the first place. > > On a related note, I've found out today that O'Reilly publishers > occasionally release the text of their older books back to the > community. Sometimes they even grant open-content licenses (such as > GFDL) to reusers of this content. Maybe we could get in touch with > them and scavenge through some of their older books? O'Reilly operates > a wiki where they release the code of their books and (amazing!) it's > MediaWiki so reuse would be direct. > > http://commons.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/O%27Reilly_Commons > > I may get in touch with them and see what books they have that are > GFDL'd that we can get our hands on. > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 5:35 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> Just found http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.pdf - >> GFDL-licensed. I'll upload a PDF; anyone have a good (semi-)automated way to >> make this wiki markup? >> >> >> >> Mike >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Textbook-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/textbook-l >> >