decay-book

Resources for the book Finite Difference Computing with Exponential Decay Models by H. P. Langtangen, published by Springer, 2016. This is an open access book where the author has all rights and publishes various ebook formats in the present repository.

Organization of directories

The book is written in DocOnce using the directory organization described in the repo setup4book-doconce.

Nicknames for chapters

Directories in this repo apply a nickname as a short form of a chapter:

• alg: Algorithms and implementations
• analysis: Analysis
• genz: Generalizations
• models: Models
• softeng: Software engineering

Key directories

• The book: doc/.src/book
• Individual chapters: doc/.src./chapters (text in *.do.txt files)
• Source code for chapter X: doc/.src/chapters/X/src-X (X is chapter nickname)
• Figures for chapter X: doc/.src/chapters/X/fig-X
• Slides for chapter X: doc/.src/chapters/slides-X/ (slides in *.do.txt files)

Published material

• PDF and HTML books: doc/pub (gh-pages branch)
• Source code (examples): src

How to modify slides

1. Go to the directory for the chapter: doc/.src/chapters/X
2. Go to the slides-X subdirectory
3. Modify the *.do.txt files as desired
4. Compile both the textbook material and the slides with bash make.sh in the parent directory doc/.src/chapters/X