Is it okay with everyone if I make chapter announcements on ruby-talk?
I guess I figure it’s as pertinent as a new software release, but I
don’t want to make an assumption. Please say.
There are a few mailing lists now which cater to those who want to
participate in this project.
I don’t expect the translation effort to take off or anything. I have
had a handful of people ask, so I figured I’d open a list and see what
happens.
I am considering offering art to those who play a major part in
faithfully translating the book to another language. I have quite a bit
of original artwork related to the book which I would like to give those
who stick with it and finish a translation. Paintings of the foxes and
Blix the Cat. Line art used in the book. I’ve made a few t-shirts as
well. I’ve also been working on some cartoon paintings of Matz that are
quite fun.
Okay. Back to filling excavated mushroom clouds with squirrel napkins.
Is it okay with everyone if I make chapter announcements on ruby-talk?
I guess I figure it’s as pertinent as a new software release, but I
don’t want to make an assumption. Please say.
I think just announcing them will involve fewer posts than a big
discussion about whether or not it’s OK, so at this point, you should
probably just go ahead and announce them
I absolutely love your work, but please, please, please can you change the layout so that it prints without chopping off the right hand side?
Alternatively, if someone with more HTML knowledge can tell me what it is about this HTML that causes it to do that, I’ll stop pleading and just try to write myself a script to fix it :-).
Previously, I tried changing the widths of some of the tables. That worked for chapter two, but not for chapter three, so there’s presumably something else I need to fiddle with.
“You want to climb aboard a jet bound to Brazil with it. And after five
days and four nights at the leisureful Costa do Sauipe Marriott Resort &
Spa, to marry it, to bear a family of 55,000 starmonkeys with it.”
Did come for Brasil Open or something?
Is it okay with everyone if I make chapter announcements on ruby-talk?
Is it okay with everyone if I make chapter announcements on ruby-talk?
I can’t speak for the more experienced folks (which is to say, everybody
else on the list), but I’d prefer that you delivered such announcements to
me in person.
And as soon as I become governer of my very first (smallish) state, you’re
in charge of all the public school textbooks.
I say announce away, they directly pertain to Ruby. And I enjoy reading
them.
Zach
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-----Original Message-----
From: David A. Black [mailto:dblack@wobblini.net]
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 5:06 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: [ANN] Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby, Chapter Four: Little
Leaves of Code
Is it okay with everyone if I make chapter announcements on ruby-talk?
I guess I figure it’s as pertinent as a new software release, but I
don’t want to make an assumption. Please say.
I think just announcing them will involve fewer posts than a big
discussion about whether or not it’s OK, so at this point, you should
probably just go ahead and announce them
Is it okay with everyone if I make chapter announcements on ruby-talk?
I can’t speak for the more experienced folks (which is to say, everybody
else on the list), but I’d prefer that you delivered such announcements to
me in person.
And as soon as I become governer of my very first (smallish) state, you’re
in charge of all the public school textbooks.
dan
Heh, Why_ promises a smallish book unless we are to to distinguishing here
between light/small and light/easy reading, which I hope we are:
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On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 13:35:44 -0700, dhtapp dhtapp@cox.net wrote:
On the book’s home page Why_ writes:
“This is just a small Ruby book. It won’t crush you. It’s light as a
feather (because I haven’t finished it yet’hehe). And there’s a reason
this book will stay light: because Ruby is simple to learn.”
I don’t think I want him to stop writing, he should do a Dilbert or
something and just go on and on… on everything Ruby, and any related
tool that catches his fancy, (eventually converting and incorporating his
previous writings on more specific subjects (what’s new in ruby 1.8oh) or
tools he uses or recommends with Ruby, like sqlite, or yaml into this style
as later chapters of his book).
Don’t rush to finish (writing) it, and do write much, if you have the time
it does not need to end.
And as I don’t write here that often, I’d like also to thank Andy and
Dave here for writing the Pickaxe. When your book came out, I needed it,
and could hardly wait for it, (and yes I still have a battered old
hardcopy). To have it online as well, has been wonderful, not least when
attempting to promote Ruby. Ok there are many others to thank lots in the
Ruby community, and many of these too obvious to mention:
Thank you all (don’t stop),
and Why_ please keep writing.
yeah, sorry. the comics are 800 pixels wide and are keeping the pages
from shrinking. how much of the page is getting cut?
The main title of chapter 4 gets cut just after “Floating Leaves of Co”. The sentence on the second? page that ends in " … Ambrose Caverns is with the elf. He is" gets cut off just after “Amrbose Cave”.
presumably you are printing with internet explorer? in firefox, the
pages print swell. and zooms out to 70% in some cases.
Yes, I’m using Avant, which uses IE’s rendering engine.
However, given your point about Firefox, I just tried it in Mozilla and (at least the print preview) seems to do a much better job. It’s cutting off just a couple of letters, which I can guess from the context.
Now that I know it’s browser-specific, I’ll just print from Mozilla for the time being. Thanks for the pointer … and thanks for the great work!
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 13:35:44 -0700, dhtapp dhtapp@cox.net wrote:
I don’t think I want him to stop writing, he should do a Dilbert or
something and just go on and on… on everything Ruby, and any related
tool that catches his fancy, (eventually converting and incorporating his
previous writings on more specific subjects (what’s new in ruby 1.8oh) or
tools he uses or recommends with Ruby, like sqlite, or yaml into this style
as later chapters of his book).
However, given your point about Firefox, I just tried it in Mozilla
and (at least the print preview) seems to do a much better job. It’s
cutting off just a couple of letters, which I can guess from the context.
Better, better. Also go to ‘Page Setup…’ and set all the margins to
zero. Turn off all headers and footers even, if you want it to print to
every edge.
Better, better. Also go to ‘Page Setup…’ and set all the margins to
zero. Turn off all headers and footers even, if you want it to print to
every edge.
Excellent! It now fits just fine. Thanks for the suggestions.
