The Stacks Project


How to contribute

Any improvements are welcome. If you are reading the material and you find an error you can simply email a small note to the address below. This includes typos, spelling errors, improvements to the web pages, etc. If at all possible edit the relevant TeX file directly and email the result.

Here is a list of tasks you can try: todo list.

Where to submit

Please email contributions to stacks.project@gmail.com. We will review, edit and if suitable update the Stacks project with your changes.

Instructions on dealing with TeX files

  1. Download all the TeX files. They are contained in this archive.
  2. Unpack the the archive (on Windows and Mac this should be automatic).
  3. Edit the TeX file of the chapter you are interested in. Say algebra.tex.
  4. Run latex algebra.tex, then bibtex algebra and then latex algebra.tex twice.
  5. Inspect the result and if OK then email algebra.tex to the address above.

Instructions in using the Makefile (slightly geeky)

Download and unpack the archive as above. Change directory to where you unpacked the files and on the command line type 

make pdfs
to automatically generate all the pdf files. Similarly, type 
make dvis
to create the dvi files instead.

Instructions on using a version control system (for major geeks)

We are using the git version control system. To clone the project type 

git clone git://github.com/stacks/stacks-project.git
on the command line. This assumes that you have git installed. See this file for a git howto. And it is possible to inspect the development history of the project.