Preface History of this Book
Brad Miller started writing this article in 2006 using Python’s restructured text. In 2007 I switched to markdown since everything else he was writing used markdown. In particular he switched to the variant of markdown used by the excellent pandoc program. Pandoc does an excellent job of converting markdown to html, latex, pdf, and other formats. Finally, the document became so big that Brad used
pandoc to convert it to latex for preparing the final version. He used The htlatex program to generate html for an online version of this document.
Brad Miller founded Runestone Academy in 2011 during a sabbatical from Luther College, and the original versions of this book was written in ReStructuredText.
