[GAP Forum] Is there a pdf version of the GAP manual with hyperrefs?

Max Horn max at quendi.de
Tue Mar 20 09:20:46 GMT 2012


Dear William,


Am 18.03.2012 um 05:07 schrieb William DeMeo:

> Dear Forum,
> 
> I realize there are both pdf and html versions of the GAP reference
> manual, which is great.  I personally like using the pdf version, so I
> can search the whole manual for things.  However, I find I am
> constantly moving around (manually) in the document, chasing cross
> references, and this can be somewhat time consuming.  I think the
> manual would be significantly more useful if all the references were
> hyper-links.

Absolutely, and in the upcoming 4.5 release of GAP, this will be the case!

Unfortunately, I am not aware of a similar thing for the GAP 4.4 manual, so you will have to wait a bit longer. Or you could try out the GAP 4.5 beta release from our homepage (but you may want to wait for the upcoming third beta).


> 
> I looked at the tex file for the manual that's distributed with GAP,
> and I suspect that merely inserting a "\usepackage{hyperref}" and
> recompiling is wishful thinking.  This seems to be a fairly complex
> document.

Since the GAP 4.4 documentation is not based on LaTeX but rather on (plain) TeX, using hyperref this way would not be possible anyway.


Cheers,
Max


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