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History

Julian V. Noble wrote Scientific FORTH in 1992. Scientific FORTH became a classic FORTH programming guide. Unfortunately, Julian V. Noble died in 2007. Currently, Scientific FORTH is no longer in print. In 2014, Harriet Noble, Julian's widow, gave permission to create a free non-commercial version of Scientific FORTH for the internet. This repository hopes to serve as the basis of this project.

Project Goal

The project aims to recreate Scientific FORTH book in LaTeX as non-commercial free book. The hope is the FORTH community will help convert the book, much like the Thinking FORTH project.

Text to LaTeX

Each chapter has been ocr'd. "Scientific Forth.tex" has the created commands for formatting.

Roadmap

• Secure copyright permission from Harriet Noble - Done
• Scan book to pdf - Done (Completed with the help of the http://www.paperupgrade.org/)
• Split chapters into files - Done
• Convert pdf's into text - Done (Completed using tesseract-ocr)
• Chapter by Chapter Progress -
  • Chapter 1
    • Tex file - Done
    • Tables/Pictures - None
    • 1st Proofread - Done
  • Chapter 2
    • Tex file - Done
    • Tables/Pictures - Done
    • 1st Proofread - Done
  • Chapter 3
    • Tex file - Done Completed by ivand85
    • Tables/Pictures - Done Completed by ivand85
    • 1st Proofread - Done
  • Chapter 4
    • Tex file - Done
    • Tables/Pictures - Done Completed by ivand85
    • 1st Proofread - Done
  • Chapter 5
    • Tex file - Done
    • Tables/Pictures - Done Completed by ivand85
    • 1st Proofread - Done
  • Chapter 6
    • Tex file - Done
    • Tables/Pictures - Done ivand85
    • 1st Proofread - Done
  • Chapter 7
    • Tex file - Done
    • Tables/Pictures -
    • 1st Proofread -
  • Chapter 8
    • Tex file - Done
    • Tables/Pictures -
    • 1st Proofread -
  • Chapter 9
    • Text - Done by ivand85
    • Tables/Pictures - Done by ivand85
    • 1st Proofread -
  • Chapter 10
    • Tex file - Done Completed by NPrescott
    • Tables/Pictures - None
    • 1st Proofread - Done
  • Chapter 11
    • Text - Done
    • Tables/Pictures -
    • 1st Proofread -
  • Index
    • Text -
  • Bibliography
    • Text - Done
    • 1st Proofread -
• Make front cover or similar cover -
• Create back cover -
• Compile and release -