Using Jupyter Notebook for book creation

[Jesus Castello]

Hello,

I was wondering if there is an easy way to use Jupyter Notebook to write programming books.

My idea is to have multiple notebooks, where every notebook is a chapter from the book. Then render all the notebooks into a single PDF, with the correct chapter order.

Would that be possible without creating a custom extension?

Thank you.

[Thomas Kluyver]

On 8 December 2016 at 21:59, Jesus Castello <mat...@gmail.com> wrote:

My idea is to have multiple notebooks, where every notebook is a chapter from the book. Then render all the notebooks into a single PDF, with the correct chapter order.

I have a project called 'bookbook' which does this. It's a very young project, so caveat emptor, but it's working for a set of lecture notes I've been working with (which I can't share publicly - sorry).

https://github.com/takluyver/bookbook

For now, it expects the notebook chapters to be named NN-name.ipynb, e.g. 01-Introduction.ipynb.

Thomas

[jfbercher]

@takowl bookbook looks very nice and promising!

Jesus, 

Alternatively, I used the following trick: 

In jupyter_latex_envs, there is an option to convert a notebook to LaTeX without headers (preambule) or footer (\end{document}); see the documentation, section 3.1. 

You can then convert your individual chapters using this command and gather them into a main TeXfile (which will also include the standard header used by the ipynb --> latex conversion, eg for rendering code). In turn, you will just have to compile this source file via latex/pdflatex/xelatex. 

If you are used to makefile, you can also design a makefile to automate updates. 

I used this approach for a project "A Journey in Signal Processing with IPython"  (a bit stalled for now). An example source file is here, and an example makefile here (update the conversion command). The resulting pdf is here.

[Sascha Spors]

Dear Jesus,

I use Sphinx together with the Jupyter Notebook Tools for Sphinx http://nbsphinx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ to generate a PDF from my notebooks on Digital Signal Processing https://github.com/spatialaudio/digital-signal-processing-lecture. That works very well.

greetings,

Sascha

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