Topics covered in this chapter

1. C.1. How this book was built
2. C.2. Citing this book
3. C.3. Python version
4. C.4. LaTeX environment

C.1 How this book was built

I wrote the content for this book primarily in HTML, augmented with LaTeX in tag attributes. Additional content included:

• Static JPG images.
• LaTeX files using packages including tikz, circuitikz, and quantikz. I processed these with pdflatex and then the convert utility from ImageMagick to create JPG images.
• Python files using matplotlib for plots and charts. I ran these in batch mode to generate JPG images.

For many images, especially those I generated, I used convert from ImageMagick to remove extra surrounding whitespace.

I wrote several Python scripts to generate the book and features within it, such as index marking. For example, one script processed HTML chapter files and extracted the Python code. The script then ran the code through Jupyter in noninteractive mode to capture all Python output. Jupyter`app-name

I used Python and the package python-docx to create a Microsoft...

C.2 Citing this book

If you cite this book with BibTeX, please use

@BOOK{Sutor:2024:DwQ,
    AUTHOR = {Sutor, Robert S.},
    PUBLISHER = {Packt Publishing},
    DATE = {2024},
    EDITION = {2},
    ISBN = {978-1-83763-675-4},
    TITLE = {Dancing with Qubits, Second Edition},
    SUBTITLE = {From qubits to algorithms, embark
        on the quantum computing journey shaping our future
    }
}

The following sections list the details of my Python and LaTeX development environment during the book creation.

C.3 Python version

Python 3.11.8 (tags/v3.11.8:db85d51, Feb 6 2024, 22:03:32)
[MSC v.1937 64 bit (AMD64)]

C.4 LaTeX environment

pdfTeX 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.25 (TeX Live 2023)
kpathsea version 6.3.5
Copyright 2023 Han The Thanh (pdfTeX) et al.
There is NO warranty. Redistribution of this software is
covered by the terms of both the pdfTeX copyright and
the Lesser GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file
named COPYING and the pdfTeX source.
Primary author of pdfTeX: Han The Thanh (pdfTeX) et al.
Compiled with libpng 1.6.39; using libpng 1.6.39
Compiled with zlib 1.2.13; using zlib 1.2.13
Compiled with xpdf version 4.04