Getting started PDF

Terry Leach

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Jun 27, 2013, 3:32:03 PM6/27/13

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I'd like to get a pdf of the getting started guide and Mix build tool on the Elixir website.

Terry

José Valim

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Jun 27, 2013, 3:50:58 PM6/27/13

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Hello Terry,

We don't have one yet but the source is in markdown in this repository:

github.com/elixir-lang/elixir-lang.github.com

Maybe someone would be able to generate a pdf from the markdown files?

José Valim

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Skype: jv.ptec

Founder and Lead Developer

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Terry Leach <terry...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'd like to get a pdf of the getting started guide and Mix build tool on the Elixir website.

Terry

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Tom Janssens

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Jun 28, 2013, 2:10:39 PM6/28/13

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I googled a bit, and one could use Pandoc to get from markdown to latex, and then generate a pdf from there..

Op donderdag 27 juni 2013 21:50:58 UTC+2 schreef José Valim het volgende:

Eric Merritt

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Jun 28, 2013, 2:15:36 PM6/28/13

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Actually Pandoc will happily go strait from markdown to pdf with no problem at all.

Tom Janssens

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Jun 28, 2013, 2:21:54 PM6/28/13

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Even better! Do you know how to do this?

Op vrijdag 28 juni 2013 20:15:36 UTC+2 schreef Eric Merritt het volgende:

Eric Merritt

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Jun 28, 2013, 2:26:13 PM6/28/13

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pandoc <input>.md -o <name>.pdf

Thats how I do it.

Ganesh Gunasegaran

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Jun 29, 2013, 2:44:01 AM6/29/13

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Getting started guide:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/241052/Elixir/elixir_getting_started.pdf

Mix:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/241052/Elixir/elixir_mix.pdf

ExUnit:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/241052/Elixir/elixir_ex_unit.pdf

Cheers,
GG

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José Valim

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Jun 29, 2013, 3:36:21 AM6/29/13

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This is beautiful Ganesh, thank you!

Could you please provide a Makefile to the elixir-lang.github.com project on github with commands to generate those PDFs? Then we can put them online ourselves!

Thanks!!!

José Valim

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Founder and Lead Developer

Ganesh Gunasegaran

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Jun 30, 2013, 8:21:42 AM6/30/13

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Sure José,

It is a rake script. I will share it this Monday.

Elixir is awesome!!! Your 'Meet Elixir' peepcode was excellent.

I am building a websocket based XMPP like IM framework using Erlang. I ported most of the code to Elixir. I am planning to open source it next week.

Cheers,
GG
Founder Akshi.com

Geoffrey Clements

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Jul 2, 2013, 7:59:37 AM7/2/13

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One of my other projects is an app to turn text into an ePub. (It's called Hatter and available on the Apple App store.) I ran markdown over the the getting started guide markdown files and concatenated the output. I then opened the output in Hatter and fixed some expectations Hatter has and created an ePub file. You can download it here:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7115966/Elixir%20Getting%20Started.epub

and ran kindlegen over that and generated a mobi file you can read on your Kindle. You can get that file here:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7115966/Elixir%20Getting%20Started.mobi

There are some broken links since they point to /docs and /getting_started but they look OK on a Nook and the Kindle app.