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This book is available in one of three ways:

This document is written in Markdown, with a tool called mdbook that makes it pretty easy to navigate.

A GitHub workflow is used to build the rulebook into this version hosted in GitHub pages (at the web link above), and another one publishes it to barge.org.

mdbook has print support in conjunction with a web browswer, but it isn't as usable at the poker table as the old LaTeX version, which produces a really nice book with a proper Table of Contents and page numbers.

So we also have the "dead tree PDF edition" of the rulebook, intended for paper and to be used at a poker table. This is produced via a perl script that extracts the file list from the mdbook configuration, uses CommonMark (a Markdown library) to produce LaTeX, then doctors that up with a perl script.

All of the tools are either common free software or included with the other pieces above.