Modern Financial Modeling: Concepts and Applications for Actuaries and Other Financial Professionals

Rendering the Book

Setup

1. Install Quarto and the VS Code Extension
2. You need to install additional prerequisites to render to PDF.
3. You need https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/LibRsvg to render SVGs in PDF. On Mac, this is available via Homebrew: brew install librsvg.
4. To render the PDF with fonts that include unicode characters (e.g. ϵ), you need to install the fonts from here: https://mirrors.mit.edu/CTAN/fonts/tex-gyre.zip

Preview

quarto preview will open the HTML version in browser and automatically update as you make changes.

Render

quarto render will render the book to HTML and PDF in the _book directory.

Code Environments

Each chapter should stand alone as it's own .qmd file. This allows us to render each chapter individually, and also to render the entire book. For dependencies, create a folder in the env folder to correspond to a single chanpter, and at the start of the file activate the environment (use the REPL to create/edit the environment to avoid running package operations on each quarto preview/render).