The tea white paper is a semantically versioned, Markdown document with mathematical representations embedded as LaTeX. New releases are compiled to .pdf with Pandoc before being published here at GitHub.

tea/white-paper 1.0.5

Contributing

If you have general feedback, please open a discussion thread.

If you have edits please refer to our project-wide contribution guidelines. Then you can either:

1. Edit white-paper.md right here on GitHub. When you submit your pull request our CI will attach the pdf to the PR.
2. Or you can build the white paper on your own computer:

   make   #=> ./tea.white-paper.pdf

Dependencies

Source these yourself or use tea: sh <(curl tea.xyz).

Project	Version
pandoc.org	^2.18
pandoc.org/crossref	^0.3
gnome.org/librsvg	^2.54
gnu.org/make	^4

Translate

We build, publish and feature full PDFs of all translations at tea.xyz.

1. Fork teaxyz/white-paper

2. Then in your terminal:

   $ export LANG=…          # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes
   $ export USER=…          # your github
   $ export VERSION=$(git describe --abbrev=0) # latest version tag  
   $ git clone https://github.com/${USER}/white-paper tea-white-paper
   …
   $ cd tea-white-paper
   $ git checkout -b i18n/${LANG} ${VERSION}
   …
   $ mkdir -p i18n/${LANG}
   $ cp white-paper.md metadata.yml i18n/${LANG}

3. Translate ./i18n/${LANG}/metadata.yml

4. To ./i18n/${LANG}/metadata.yml append:

   lang: …       # https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#language-variables
   dir: ltr      # language direction; ltr:left-to-right or rtl:right-to-left
   header-includes:
     - \fancyfoot[L]{${VERSION}+${LANG}}   # expand these variables!
   translator:
     - Your Fullname

   ⚠️ Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages only. Please also add the following to the metadata.yml:

   header-includes:
     - \usepackage{xeCJK}
     - \setCJKmainfont{Noto Serif CJK XX} # where XX can be SC, TC, HK, JP, KR https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-cjk

5. Translate ./i18n/${LANG}/white-paper.md

6. Commit translation to git and push to GitHub:

   git add i18n/${LANG}/*
   git commit -m "add ${LANG} translation"
   git push origin i18n/${LANG}

7. Create a pull request:

   open https://github.com/teaxyz/white-paper/compare/main...${USER}:white-paper:i18n/${LANG}

8. (Optional) Preview your work:

   make tea.white-paper_${LANG}.pdf

Maintenance

Set Version

echo "- \fancyfoot[L]{$1}" >> metadata.yml