Gray Paper Archive

Historical versions of the Gray Paper (HTML & PDF)

Gray Paper as HTML

We use a two-step process to convert the Gray Paper source code into an HTML file.

Quick Start

If you don't care about the process and have docker installed, just run:

$ ./scripts/build-html-docker.sh

You should end up with ./dist/graypaper.html produced.

Compile the latex source

First you need to compile the original source of the Gray Paper (Latex) into PDF. The gray paper repository is a git submodule, so you can simply update it to get the latest checked-in version.

$ git submodule update --init # update 

Next step is to compile Latex. For convenience we provide a docker image and a script to do just so without polluting your local environment with all the latex dependencies. Feel free to do it manually though if you wish!

$ ./scripts/build-pdf-docker.sh

At the end you should have ./dist/graypaper.pdf produced.

Convert PDF to HTML

Next step is to convert the PDF into HTML. We use pdf2htmlEX tool for that.

Again, for convenience there is a docker image that does this too. The script below will also compile the latex code, so you can just use this.

$ ./scripts/build-html-docker.sh

At the very end you should see ./dist/graypaper.html.