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

[William DeMeo]

This is great!  It seems to work with no problems (though I have only
checked ref/manual.pdf).  Thank you very much!!

2012/3/20 Burkhard Höfling <burkhard at hoefling.name>:
>
> On 2012-03-18, at 05:07 , William DeMeo wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
> Some time ago, I created a version of gapmacro.tex which added hyperlinks and used standard fonts in the pdf manuals. I've just used it on the GAP 4.4 manuals and wrapped up the result:
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> http://www.icm.tu-bs.de/~bhoeflin/gap/pdfmanuals.tar.bz2
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> Download the archive into the GAP directory (containing doc, lib, etc.) and uncompress – it will replace  the old manual.pdf, manual.six and manual.toc files for all four manuals. (Be sure to make a backup copy of the doc diretory first!)
>
> Please let me know if there are any problems.
>
> Cheers
>
> Burkhard.
>



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