This is the sample book that I'm including for source examples in my presentation on PreText for the KBOR OER Conference
A live version of this book is residing (at least temporarily) on my website. You can access the generated pdf here as well.
In order to generate the tikz graphs, you need to, at least once, run pretext build html -d. The -d flag tells PreText to build the diagrams from the LaTeX code.
To build the book as an interative webpage, run:
pretext build htmlfollowed by
pretext view htmlIf you want pretext to keep looking for changes and update the webpages automatically, instead run
pretext view html --watchAs a
pretext build pdfYou can then either open the PDF (which you find in the output/pdf/ folder) in your file browser, or use pretext view pdf to view the pdf in your browser.
Note that you don't need to specify latex to build diagrams, because latex knows how to handle the tikz diagrams automatically.
Explore the PreText Author Guide documentation to see more options (there's a lot you can do!)
... by the way, you might have noticed that the color is different than if you built your own sample book. The default color scheme is blue and red, but since I'm from the wheat-based school, I prefer brown and gold (closest to Shocker Colors).
This is controlled in the publication/publication.ptx file css style tag.