How this ebook is generated

Organisation of markdown chapters

• Chapters are written in markdown

• FreeCAD source file name is replaced by URL by prefixing the FreeCAD official repo path python FreeCADGitBaseUrl="https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/tree/master/"

• Python scripts to substitute Introduction to header files for important source subfolders each *_folder_desc.py has data strcture with one line desc for the function of each source file

• Python script merge.py merges chapters into single md file URL can be validated

• PDF is generated by pandoc

Install prequisite to build this book

anaconda is recommended for build on Windows and Linux

conda install pandoc
pip install PyPDF2
# pdflatex, there maybe some more latex packages needed
conda install -c conda-forge mikte