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This is aDRAFT of a pdf called farm-finance.pdf

The document is still very much a draft but it is regularly worked on. Thedocument covers the basic mathematics of finance and how to use thisinformation to make better capital allocation decisions.

The document has been written using the groff document formatting system withthe ms macro package and the preprocessors eqn, tbl, pic and grap.

If you wish to view the pdf derived from the groff files please click thislink

The document has evolved to follow the layout of a book and the file structurereflect this:

I use a Debian system so I will presume that if your system is different youcan follow along from the Debian instructions.

You will require groff and grap:

sudo apt-getinstall groff grap

You will also require a pdf viewer, I use both evince and zathura:

sudo apt-get install evince zathura

To view the entire document, from inside the directory where you havedownloaded the repo, you can simply type:

. create-pdf; evince farm-finance-draft.pdf

Themaster-wip.ms file exists because the entire document is rather large,cumbersome and slow to produce for editing individual files.

Vim is my preferred text editor and I typically have a vertically split windowwith the chapter/appendix/file I am working on in one window and themaster-wip.ms file open in the other. Themaster-wip.ms file is uncommentedto print the file I am editing, and any other files I maybe interested in.

I run the command below inside vim to create a pdf file calledworktest.pdfin thetmp directory in my home folder. If you do not have this directory youcan either create it or edit thecreate-wip-pdf file to direct the output toa different location.

!. create-wip-pdf

Each time a change is made to the chapter/appendix/file it is saved and thenthe command above is rerun.

The reason themaster-wip.ms file is required is that the macro files,macro/format.tmac,macro/equation.tmac andmacro/pic.tmac are onlysourced in the master files and not in the individual chapters/appendicesfiles.

You could of course source these files in each individual chapter or data filebut that would require more maintenance.

A separate window can be used to open the pdf which will automatically refreshon each update to the underlying pdf document:

zathura --fork ~/tmp/worktest.pdf; exit

There are some blank pages between the cover sheet and the table of contents.This is obviously an unwanted feature, however, I am not sure exactly what iscausing it. I think it may be the interaction between the BT, PT and TC macroswithin the ms macro package. I have not had time to give it the considerationit deserves at this time. Sorry