Publishing with CDF

Expand your ideas by publishing with CDF. CDF has opened up a whole new horizon for e-publishing of technical and computational materials. From textbooks and courseware to journals and trade publications, this session will explore the broad range of options for publishing dynamic, interactive content as CDFs. Whether you are affiliated with a major publisher or working independently, CDF will help enable more meaningful communication between you and your reading audience.

Advanced Typesetting

This workshop will give you a hands-on tutorial for creating your own advanced typeset structures in Mathematica. You will be exposed to, evaluate, and experiment with—in a hands-on fashion—some of the core technologies that underlie the typesetting system in Mathematica. At the conclusion of the workshop you should be able to create and use your own typeset structures. For instance, have you ever looked at the output of, say, Binomial[a,b]//TraditionalForm and wondered how you can create something like that yourself? If so, then this workshop is for you! The preliminary order of topics covered will be:

1. Boxes and the representation of typeset structures;
2. MakeBoxes and MakeExpression and how the typesetting system interacts between the kernel and the front end;
3. Stylesheets and how to package up the typeset structures onto the stylesheet;
4. TemplateBoxes and how to use these modern mechanisms that significantly advance typesetting;
5. The notation package and how to shortcut much of the work required in using MakeBoxes and MakeExpression;
6. Grid typesetting and graphics typesetting and the low-level representations of these and other objects.

Getting Started with CDF

It's official—CDF (Computable Document Format) was launched in July. Learn more about this new format and how and why to adopt it in your work in this session, where we will leave plenty of time for Q&A. What advantages does CDF offer over other formats, and what tools do you need to use it? What's coming next in the development pipeline? We'll try to address everything you might need to know to get started using CDF.

Sharing Wisdom Gained from Publishing a CDF ebook

The print version of Calculus: Early Transcendentals, by Briggs, Cochran, Gillett, and Schulz, Addison-Wesley/Pearson Education, contains almost 1,000 pages. The electronic version of the complete text was created from scratch as a Computable Document Format (CDF) ebook composed of 113 files, collectively containing 648 interactive figures. Navigation between any two sections of the ebook and to specific items within a section requires only two mouse clicks. The CDF ebook is distributed to thousands of students enrolled at hundreds of colleges directly from Pearson's MyMathLab website. The presenter is the author of the CDF ebook and will share wisdom gained from the experience of designing, creating, managing, and publishing the electronic version of Calculus.

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