I’m reading the one comes with Ruby distribution, not even on the
internet, it doesn’t have any figures
Is there any reason for such constrain?
Maybe they’d like you to get the book
It might be a publisher constraint? (ie yes you can make the book free
but you have to limit it in some way that the print version is still
appealing)
All I know is that I used the htmlhelp version for a couple of weeks and
thought that the book was good enough to buy, getting the illustrations
& tables was an added bonus
Small nitpick: StandardError and below are rescued by default in a
rescue block (and with the rescue modifier), but any Exception can be
rescued. The note on the far right seems to suggest something else, and
seems a bit wrong.
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On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 01:13:26AM +0900, Shannon Fang wrote:
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The Pragmatic Programmers would be the source for a definitive answer
to this question, but a likely possibility is that the illustrations
and tables that are not online were authored by someone else.
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On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 11:39 AM, Robert McGovern wrote:
I’m reading the one comes with Ruby distribution, not even on the
internet, it doesn’t have any figures
Is there any reason for such constrain?
Maybe they’d like you to get the book
It might be a publisher constraint? (ie yes you can make the book free
but you have to limit it in some way that the print version is still
appealing)
All I know is that I used the htmlhelp version for a couple of weeks
and thought that the book was good enough to buy, getting the
illustrations & tables was an added bonus
The problem is that the figures where done using PSTricks in LaTeX, and
I haven’t found a utility that would let me extract and embed them
simply into my HTML. latex2html does something similar (but not with
PSTricks diagrams), but its fairly complex. Having spent two weeks
off-charge converting the book from LaTeX to HTML, I really couldn’t
justify to my family the extra weeks to do the figures.
However, all the stuff used to produce the book and the HTML are
available online, so if someone feels strongly enough, I’m sure the rest
of the community would appreciate it.
Cheers
Dave
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On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 10:39, Robert McGovern wrote:
I’m reading the one comes with Ruby distribution, not even on the
internet, it doesn’t have any figures
Is there any reason for such constrain?
Maybe they’d like you to get the book
It might be a publisher constraint? (ie yes you can make the book free
but you have to limit it in some way that the print version is still
appealing)
