Chapter 1 Before you arrive...
Authoring in PreTeXt requires nothing more than a wifi connection and GitHub account. GitHub users also can share their content for free on GitHub Pages!
Section 1.1 Setting up your GitHub account
To create a GitHub account, follow the instructions on GitHub’s signup page.
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github.com/signupBe sure to note your GitHub username and password in your password manager (or however you usually keep track of login credentials) so you can log in again durring the workshop.
Section 1.2 Apply for your GitHub Education discount
Educators and non-profit researchers can get many of GitHub’s paid features for free.
Apply at Education.GitHub.com to unlock these features (in our experience, applications are usually processed quickly for
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education.github.com/discount_requests/pack_application.edu email addresses).Section 1.3 And that’s it!
Even just a last year, the process to get started writing PreTeXt involved several more steps. (Raise your hand if you don’t care what a “PATH variable” is!)
The community is streamlining this experience daily, and we look forward to sharing how easy writing in PreTeXt is when we see you at the workshop.
