TODO @entorb : fix ebook generation script, which is broken since recent modifications (chapter openings etc.)

”So it was you the Sorting Hat was
warning me about!” has a closing quotation mark at the beginning.

latexmk -norc -e '$chapter=008' -r ../latexmkrc -g "hpmor-chapter-008"

Latexmk: Stopping because executing following code from command line
    $chapter=008
gave an error:
    Illegal octal digit '8' at (eval 9) line 1, at end of line

Book is ok, chapter 1 to 7 are ok, 10 or 13 are ok too. For Chapters 8 and 9 I have this error on my computer.

I suggest adding the creation of the 6 part/volume pdfs to the release pipeline. Currently, people browsing to the release page do not know that these printable volumes exist.

Furthermore, I suggest adding this 6-volume structure into the complete PDF, for example using
\part{Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres and the Methods of Rationality}
\part{Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres and the Professor's Games}
...
or similar.
So that in the table of contents and at the start of each part/volume the volume title is displayed.
In the e-book version I already did so.

When I first read the book, I did not realize this substructure and upon realization I very much liked it.

Hello!

I know this is not a repository of Eliezer Yudkowsky.

But maybe there is any possibility to publish the book under any opensource license, like "Creative commons attribution share-alike" (like the Wikipedia)? If yes, then for example it will be legally to do "forks" and translations without asking special permission.

Hi @rjl20, please could you invite @entorb to be a collaborator? As well as the German translation and ePub conversion he's doing a lot of good work on the general presentation and it's got to the point where it seems a needless roadblock for me to have to review everything he's doing.

At the same time, he points out it might also be useful to grant me the ability to administer the repo, simply to increase the bus factor. I would be quite happy to have that responsibility if you think it's appropriate.

From the source of chapter 13:

Then he pulled out the drawer.
\begin{align*}\intertext{\scshape \centering
Opportunities to do good are everywhere\\
but darkness is where the light needs to be}
\hbox{\scshape Cost of question: }&\hbox{\scshape 1 point}\\
\hbox{\scshape Current points: }&\hbox{74}\\[1.5ex]
\multicolumn{2}{c}{\scshape Nice underwear}\\
\multicolumn{2}{c}{\scshape Did your mother pick them out?}\\
\end{align*}

This renders fine in the PDF – but in the MOBI version (as rendered by my Kindle), “darkness is where light needs to be Cost of question” ends up in one line. I guess the converter script isn't fully aware of what \intertext is doing?

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in most other cases the "—" "em dash" is used.

What is the rule of when to apply the "mid-length" dash? Is it also used between words, or only between numbers? Would be nice to harmonize it.

Rather than try to sync corrections to the text with other versions, it's probably easier to make the LaTeX sources work with a converter like pandoc.

Currently they don't. It would be good to work out how hard fixing them would be.

I try to complile (only chapter one actually) and emph{} has no effect.

I don’t know if that’s a good idea but I forked your project for a french translation → https://github.com/yeKcim/hpmor. Thanks a lot for this LaTeX release.

README.md doesn't specify what the expected baseline for building hpmor is; it would seem fair to assume at most the most recent release of TeXLive. As far as I can see, both the above-mentioned packages have been added since then.

README.md says somewhat misleadingly that the pkg directory contains packages that "might be tricky to find". Of the packages in that directory, two are easy-peasy (microtype 2.5a, as shipped in TL 2014, and lettrine 1.64, which is older than the 1.70 shipped in TL 2014) and one is well-nigh impossible (ucntn.sty I cannot find in TeXLive, CTAN or anywhere else except in this project).

Would you accept a patch that a) specifies what the baseline requirements are for building hpmor; b) removes microtype & lettrine, assuming that they are part of the baseline; and c) adds the two above-mentioned packages?

(Both datetime2 and tracklang are available in TeXLive 2015, so once that is released and considered widely-available enough to become the baseline, if you think suitable, then those two packages could be removed again.)

Why don't you use writtenNote/letterAddress in chapter 7 (2 letters at the end) like in chapter 1 ?

Search for "Chapter" to find them.

in chapter 52 and 53 (at least), some parsel dialogs are in \emph{} instead of \parsel{}

(I will probably submit a PR later, but I wanted to warn)

Notably, the HJPEV and The Methods of Rationality subbook doesn't open with the silver-fraction-of-a-line bit.

The note from the start of Ch. 25 was removed some time ago (correctly, I think, as it seems to have been the only note in the book). It should be reinstated, and all the notes added from http://www.hpmor.com/science/

I used this old tool of mine, for checking the usage of hyphens. It found quite some variations, like "time-travel" vs. "time travel", see attachment. Any native-speaker interested in harmonizing those?

I propose a small restructuring of the source tree:
*.png & *.pdf -> images/ dir
*.tex -> layout/ dir (or better name)

only keeping the hpmor.tex and the hpmor-*.tex in the root dir

I only noticed this in book 5 since I re-downloaded it after the new font, but I imagine that it's in all the books now.

Two places I actually noted down as I went were page 161 ("intent---who") and page 204 ("would you not---"). Hopefully that's enough to go on.

Only seems to affect the TOC; everywhere else the chapter titles get all-capitalized.

The "-" is too prominent. See for example this screenshot below, taken from the FR version Is anyone able to modify the font sligthly?

Is there a reason you used align* instead of the writtenNote env? (at my ebook conversion i struggled a bit with those blocks)

https://github.com/rjl20/hpmor/blob/4670b0572c567608fc5702d109ce4afdf112d49e/chapters/hpmor-chapter-013.tex#L111

Here's a set of minor issues I noticed with the E-Book:

• Chapter 17:

  And if Paper-2 said 997$\times$997, Harry would leave Paper-1 blank.
  

  The parser translates \times to ×, but leaves the $ in.

• Chapter 19:

  You will not be hurt and neither will I\@.
  

  The parser translates the \@ into a space.

• Chapter 21:

  \begin{enumerate}[A.]{
  

  The e-book uses 1., 2. etc. for numbering, which would be fine… but the text after the list talks about items A through D.

• Chapter 27:

  Mr~Carl Sloper
  

  With the way the Kindle renders it, when making the lines justified, the space protected space isn't stretched, which looks weird. I don't know whether this is a Kindle weirdness or the MOBI file could represent this better.

• Chapter 58:

  we were to rescue a woman, you and I\@. You tried to slay the protector man
  

  Somehow, in the E-Book, this reads as we were to rescue a woman, you and I . You tried to slay the protector man.

• Chapter 78:

  the most powerful wizard in the world \&c
  

  In the E-Book, this is typeset as „world &c.“

• Chapter 86:

  the sum over all possible excuses would be more than $.01$
  
  $2 + 2 = $…
  

  These $ signs do make it into the E-Book.

All these were found in the MOBI version, downloaded about a month ago – sorry about the noise if they have been fixed in the meantime :-)

It should be possible to download the main all-in-one PDF directly.

Along the lines of \shout etc. (Currently, thoughts are highlighted with \emph.)

Author's introduction

The official version at https://www.hpmor.com/chapter/1 starts with these author's notes:

This is not a strict single-point-of-departure fic - there exists a primary point of departure, at some point in the past, but also other alterations. The best term I've heard for this fic is "parallel universe".

The text contains many clues: obvious clues, not-so-obvious clues, truly obscure hints which I was shocked to see some readers successfully decode, and massive evidence left out in plain sight. This is a rationalist story; its mysteries are solvable, and meant to be solved.

The pacing of the story is that of serial fiction, i.e., that of a TV show running for a predetermined number of seasons, whose episodes are individually plotted but with an overall arc building to a final conclusion.

The story has been corrected to British English up to Ch. 17, and further Britpicking is currently in progress (see the /HPMOR subreddit).

All science mentioned is real science. But please keep in mind that, beyond the realm of science, the views of the characters may not be those of the author. Not everything the protagonist does is a lesson in wisdom, and advice offered by darker characters may be untrustworthy or dangerously double-edged.

I suggest including them in the PDF, just excluding the probably outdated part about the British English correction.

Opening quotations

Chapter 1 opens with this nice quote

Beneath the moonlight glints a tiny fragment of silver, a fraction of a line...

(black robes, falling)

...blood spills out in litres, and someone screams a word.

Chapter 2 opens with the quote
"Of course it was my fault. There's no one else here who could be responsible for anything."

Most chapters up to Chapter 18 also have some opening quote.

I would like to add them to the PDF as well.

Author's funny comments

Comments like

#include "stddisclaimer.h"

are found above the quotations. I suggest not to include those.

currently some spells are in single quotations marks, others are in \emph...
Maybe even use a different font?

\scream does not seem to fit. \boom?

A six-volume set should contain the Omake and other extra material.

When converting parsel, convert_parsel function in ebook/1_latex2html.py replaces each 's' with 'ss' which breaks   within it.

Currently, each file has its own local words list. Instead, use a project-wide dictionary.

Also, find some way to mark one-offs "sic" (e.g. "Eeehhhh", foreign words) so that they don't need to be even in the per-file list.

My PR #10 has grown: I've undertaken quite a bit of tidy-up of the LaTeX, and also intend to add many "Brit-fixes" to the text that I noted while reading the book.

So, @rjl20, if you're still interested in maintaining the project, I'm happy to make the work into a series of PRs that can be discussed and applied as you see fit; for the moment I'm just pushing everything to my fork, so the PR is now rather mis-described!

There is a repo of a German translation of the first book, foreked from this repo. I am considering converting the existing translations for the remaining 5 books into LaTeX. What do you think, should the translation be merged into your repo, or shall they stay separate?

There's too much space between section breaks and subsection headers. Reduce it, ideally without resorting to inline \vspace hacks.

Parseltongue font doesn’t have "-" character. That's a problem in chapter 109: "an intent—who knowss?"

I’ve just add it in my fork (yeKcim@95c41b3).

Is there a way to git pull this commit in your repository easiest than: git checkout my english branch, git add, git commit, git push, pull request?

What to you think about using GitHub actions to automatically compile a new PDF and e-book upon every commit to master?

Here an example for a config file from anther project of mine.

We would need to set the trigger to
on: push: branches: [ master ]

install the latex packages via
sudo apt install [packages] > /dev/null

And define a static tag/version to publish to, for example "daily".

some chapters have more (or less) “ than ” (002, 005, 006, 007, 008,009, 015, 017, 018, 019, 021, 022, …, 062, 064, 071, 072, 075, 077, 078, 079,…)

I checked for { and }, nothing to report

I used this command:

for f in *.tex; do {
    printf "$f\n " ;
    grep -o "“" $f | wc -l ;
    grep -o "”" $f | wc -l ;
    printf "\n"
}; done

In https://github.com/yeKcim/hpmor the titlepage, fonts and probably quite some "under the hood" functions have been tuned. I suggest to adept these improvements.

I am currently considering implementing a German LaTeX version, hence it would be nice to have the "old" EN master and the "new and fancy" FR version aligned, so I won't need to cherry pick ;-)

@yeKcim: Could you please enable the GitHub issues feature in your Repo or provide another way of contacting you?

I find the mixing of fonts introduced by the new (and quite nice looking parsel font) a bit disturbing and suggest to revoke the \parsel command to the old markup of

\newcommand\parsel[1]{\parselify{#1}{\ptsansi\parssselstring}}

Make a macro to double the s's. Then it can be written and spell-checked normally.

Rule for generating Parseltongue: every run of s's has an extra one added.

since the starting is not as polished as the later writing (and the serial web release format did not allow the author to go back and revise the start like before a typical book release [edit: actually it was revised several times throughout the project])...

one thing that i often recommend is starting with the daystareld.com revisions to ch1-4 https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9676374/1/Daystar-s-Remix-of-HPMOR and then continuing from there.

(i wish someday the hpmorpodcast.com would use these to rerecord the first 4 kinda awkward original chapters as well)

Test:
\emph{emph1 emph1 \emph{emph2 \emph{emph3} emph2} emph1}
Expectation:
emph1 emph1 emph2 emph3 emph2 emph1

Restult:
emph1 emph1 emph2 emph3 emph2 emph1

At
https://www.hpmor.com/
the links to the PDF, EPUB and MOBI versions should be updated to
https://github.com/rjl20/hpmor/releases/latest/

Does anyone have a way of contacting Eliezer for asking him to perform this update?

Furthermore, since at https://www.hpmor.com/ there are download links for the 6 volumes, you might consider generating PDFs for those in the release-pipeline as well. For the e-book formats, I do not think this is necessary.

Please consider adding some sort of revision numbering note somewhere in the resulting book (it can be discreet), so that one can relate which version of the source was used to produce a PDF or EPUB, etc.

The last page looks like a good place to do it, since you lack the library index and publishing information page at the start of the book.

It was my understanding that ellipsis should have a space after them in English. I am mistaken?

E.g.

“What lay ahead of her… would be no easier, certainly, and might well be harder.”

instead of

“What lay ahead of her…would be no easier, certainly, and might well be harder.”

In chapter 86, page 1420 of the PDF, Professor McGonagall's name is hyphenated as "McG-onagall". I don't know what the correct hyphenation is, but that looks wrong.

I can’t run latexmk hpmor-dust-jacket-1

…
! LaTeX Error: Part 'remark' is undefined..
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