/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15268904
Thank you for telling me about minted. I will look at it. I figured out how to make lstlisting do java syntax highlighting but not in a darkmode.

The number one duty of a book is to look cool and the world's most popular math book probably gets BTFO'd in terms of readership by even a mediocre manga because of this.

It doesn't really matter what your book contains if the cover and the artwork are so bad they aren't interesting to look at. Nobody will open it.

I have to make everything in the book look cool and make the writing and code as short and clear as possible and give it a lot of maids.

A lot of times I see math books make this mistake. The cover is solid red or solid white and it has the name of the book in gold letters or black letters and no art and open the book and still no art, but sometimes examples of the ideas discussed. A lot of proofs but no doing anything with the proofs except construct another proof later that references it.

A person is placed by a bookshelf. Two books are there. One has 1500 big titty anime maids, a lot of drawings of data, easy to understand code with nice highlighting and not much writing. Full color. The cover is a maid with huge boobs. The other is just solid red with no art, and contains no drawings and a lot of words.

In this case the maid book is going to book-mog the other book so hard it may as well not even be there. Even if the content of the plain book is better, the cool one will get more attention.

People who say not to judge a book by it's cover or that it is what is on the inside that counts are just coping. Nobody cares what is on the inside unless the outside is attractive and if the inside is boring the book will lose attention quickly, even if the outside is nice. You have to nail both the information and presentation aspects to make a nice book imo.