Conway's Ph.D. Thesis, in LaTeX.
Permission is granted to distribute unmodified copies of this repository.
Permission is NOT granted to make modifications or create derivative works.
The file conway.bst alone
is licensed under the LaTeX Project Public License v1.3c.
For the code used to produce the figures, see yawnoc/phd-code.
Permission is granted to compile the thesis from source, provided that the resulting output is not distributed or published.
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY etc. etc.
Run ./compile to compile from scratch.
This calls ./clean (which removes ignored files)
and ./version (which generates the Git version information)
before actually compiling.
If using Windows, all three scripts should work in Git BASH.
Image files for wet signature and date are loaded
from the external directory ../phd-thesis-signatures.
If an image file does not exist, it will be omitted.
Assuming that no images are loaded from ../phd-thesis-signatures,
the output thesis.pdf can be reproduced exactly, run after run,
on a given TeX installation.
Unfortunately, different installations will produce different PDF output, as demonstrated by the experiment at yawnoc/reproducible-latex.
Nevertheless, for the following groups of TeX Live installations, identical output is observed between listed installations belonging to the same group:
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Group 1: TeX Live 2019 Debian
- Debian 10 (aarch64) texlive-full 2018.20190227-2
- Debian 10 (x86_64) texlive-full 2018.20190227-2
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Group 2: TeX Live 2020 Not Debian
- macOS 10.15 (x86_64) TeX Live 2020
- Termux 0.112 (armv7l) texlive-full 20200406-4
- Windows 10 (x86_64) TeX Live 2020/W32TeX
Moreover, DiffPDF 2.1.3-1.2 confirms that the output of Group 1 is visually identical to the output of Group 2.