Absolute Red Open Challenge

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• View the Absolute Red Open Challenge v0.1 PDF document.

• View the Absolute Red Addendum: Empirical Evidence and Historical Context on Polkadot Proposal #1629 v0.1 Markdown document.

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MacOS Setup

Edit LaTeX

VSCode Extensions for LaTeX

VSCode Extensions for LaTeX:

• Install tlmgr binary by downloading BasicTeX.pkg from https://www.tug.org/mactex/morepackages.html
• Run shasum -a 512 BasicTeX.pkg to validate checksum matches
• Restart VSCode and install relevant LaTeX extensions that use chktex

Convert LaTeX to PDF

Install LaTeX on macOS https://ryan-holben.github.io/tex/latex/installation/macos/2016/08/21/installing-tex-on-mac/

brew install texlive
brew install basictex
echo "export PATH="/usr/local/texlive/2024basic/bin/universal-darwin:$PATH" >> ~/.zprofile"

View directory of config file by running kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFSYSCONFIG

Edit file /opt/homebrew/Cellar/texlive/20240312_3/share/texmf-config/tlmgr/config, appending the text update,option,install to it.

Run the following to view the generated PDF:

mkdir /opt/homebrew/Cellar/texlive/20240312_3/share/tlpkg/backups
tlmgr update --self
tlmgr install texliveonfly
texliveonfly -c xelatex absolute-red.tex

View PDF

open -a Preview.app absolute-red.pdf

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