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Not to cast aspersions on either Lamport or the content of the work, but this "hyperbook" would be much more accessible to contributions as a Github repository, and much more accessible to readers as an ePub (or plain hypertext!) The approach here feels more like what you'd come up with to open-source a book's production in the 1980s.


A single big HTML file with MathJax and judicious use of semantic tags seems to me like the way to go. Heck, maybe even all Markdown with a good Pandoc build script included.


I'd assume the book has probably been in the works for a while.


It has been around for a while, but I agree that hundreds of cross-linked PDFs is not the most accessible format.




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