Use of Mako to aid book writing

Hans Petter Langtangen [1, 2]

[1] Center for Biomedical Computing, Simula Research Laboratory
[2] Department of Informatics, University of Oslo

Nov 3, 2015


Table of contents

Use of variables
      How to speak about "this chapter"
How to make several variants of the text
Mako's Python functions
      Basics of Mako functions
      How to automatically generate a DocOnce file with repetitive structure
      How to deal with almost repetitive structure
      How to treat multiple programming languages in the same text
References

Below we describe the work flow and how we can utilize many nice DocOnce features when writing chapters for a future, potential book project.