Course on Answer Set Solving in Practice

The main repository integrating the LaTeX beamer-based slides for a MSc class on Answer Set Programming (ASP).

Pre-requisites & Set-up

Because large files are stored in the repo (e.g., images, logos, etc.), Git LFS is used. This means that Git LFS extension must be installed (alogside Git, of course) and setup to be able to clone large files. To install Git LFS check this guide, but if you are using a Linux distribution, you should be able to get it from your package manager. In case of Ubuntu-based distros:

$ sudo apt-get install git-lfs
$ git lfs install Git LFS initialized. # just run once to initialize Git LFS

Because complex beamer slides may require running LaTex multiple times (e.g., to get overlays correct), the Perl-based script latexmk is used and hence needs to be installed in the system, for example:

$ sudo apt-get install latexmk

For references, the system uses the advanced biber package, an advanced replacement of BibTex. Make sure it is installed:

$ sudo apt-get install biber

Finally, we clone the whole course source code, by cloning the main repo and fetching all submodules:

$ git@github.com:potassco-asp-course/course.git
$ cd course
$ git submodule update --init --recursive

Note: if you don't have Git LFS installed and set-up, this will bring many ``empty` reference files, that are not the proper files used when compiling (e.g., empty logo pdf files). This will cause LaTex to break.

If, for some reason, you need to reset/unbind all submodules: git submodule deinit -f .

All modules are under include/ folder. If you want to reset a particular module, for example, the one containing the logos:

$ cd include/logos
$ git reset --hard

At this point, all the source code should be ready to be compiled (hopefully!).

Compiling

The standard way to compile the pack of slides as a PDF file is as follows:

$ latexmk main.tex

You will note that

This will run pdflatex and bibtex many times until a correct PDF is produced.

To clean the comliked version:

$ latexmk main.tex -pdf -C

Production

1. uncomment
   1. \includeonlylecture and
   2. {<target>,goodbye,bibliography} in main.tex
2. run latexmk main.tex
3. rename main.pdf into <target>.pdf
4. undo above edits, latexmk main.tex again
5. produce a release attaching both files
6. link released files in webspace

Structure & Style

• mostly implemented by LaTeX's \part and \section commands
• use itemize environments with \structure{} (rather than description environment).
• use \neg for (default) negation in view of the logic of Here-and-There (was \naf before).
• separate slides with % followed by 70 - (minus symbol).

Videos

Moved the list of videos to VIDEO.md