I’ve had a few requests to release the “source” to Snake Wrangling for Kids, by people interested in translating the text into another language.
SWFK is still a work in progress — although that progress has been rather slow since we moved to the UK — but I can’t see any reason why I should put off releasing the LaTex source until some sort of mythical completion date, particularly not when there are willing participants out there.
So for those who are interested in translating SWFK to another language, the latex “source” can be found in the following Mercurial repository:
http://www.briggs.net.nz/hg/swfk
Note that it isn’t “buildable” in its current state. I haven’t added the image files yet because some of them are rather large (the cover alone is over 2MB) — the wonders of the EPS format. Mercurial doesn’t seem to handle excessively large image files that well (at least not on my web host it doesn’t), so if anyone has ideas on that front, let me know.
Thanks!
If images get into a decent size when zipped, maybe you can upload them zipped and unzip them from the make file.
I was not exactly looking forward to doing latex after so many years
I was going to zip them, but even then the overall size isn’t greatly improved.
Latex isn’t bad when all the hard work has already been done…
And considering the options (the impenetrable monstrosity of DocBook, the suboptimal output of Word Processing, etc), Latex is by far the best option.
Zip files added for all images except the cover, which is a little too big (even zipped). I’ve added a placeholder cover image instead.