Appendix D
Production Notes

The source content for this book was written in LATEX markup. I used many packages including amsmath, amssymb, biblatex, bookmark, ccicons, enumitem, framed, geometry, graphicx, hyperref, listings, minitoc, multicol, tcolorbox, and xifthen. Information about these packages is available at CTAN, the Comprehensive TEX Archive Network.

The diagrams and graphs were created with pgf/tikz, its libraries, and associated packages such as circuitikz. I am especially indebted to Alastair Kay for his brilliant quantikz package. All quantum circuits were created using this package.

I prepared the text in the open source Visual Studio Code editor from Microsoft and others. James Yu’s LaTeX Workshop extension made creating this book much easier. tex4ht and make4ht were used with custom Python and sed scripts to produce the eBook.

Files were stored in Dropbox folders and version control was handled by git and github.

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