Hi,
just a question:
While reading through “The PickAxe” “Programming in Ruby” I found
"missing figures" named “Figure not available…”.
Do I have a damaged copy if this fine manual or is it because there
is a commercial version also ?
Kind regards,
Meino
Hi Meino!
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
Hi,
just a question:
While reading through “The PickAxe” “Programming in Ruby” I found
“missing figures” named “Figure not available…”.Do I have a damaged copy if this fine manual or is it because there
is a commercial version also ?Kind regards,
Meino
I don’t know why the figures are missig but I’v got something for you.
Since you seem to be german this link might help you
http://home.vr-web.de/juergen.katins/ruby/buch/
it’s a german translation of the pickaxe which has figures and also
links.
–
Bitte Bitte Bitte Bitte Bitte Bitte Bitte Bitte Bitte Bitte Bitte
Bitte Bitte Bitte Bitte Bitte Bitte Bitte Bitte Bitte Bitte Bitte
–Andreas Metzler on debian-user-german@lists.debian.org
Meino Christian Cramer Meino.Cramer@gmx.de wrote in message news:20030824.192813.59678555.Meino.Cramer@gmx.de…
Hi,
just a question:
While reading through “The PickAxe” “Programming in Ruby” I found
“missing figures” named “Figure not available…”.Do I have a damaged copy if this fine manual or is it because there
is a commercial version also ?Kind regards,
Meino
Hallo Meino
I can assure you that the german translation is very precise. I think it
is more precise than the german (paper) version you can buy. If you
prefer an english original with figures and inserted text fragments
(which are missing in the official online version) you should look at
the english version on my site. You can download it, too.
greetings
Juergen Katins
Hi,
I don’t know why the figures are missig but I’v got something for you.
Since you seem to be german this link might help youhttp://home.vr-web.de/juergen.katins/ruby/buch/
it’s a german translation of the pickaxe which has figures and also
links.
Thanks for the link! 
On the other hand, I do prefer “the originals” since translation often
are not that precise escpecially when it comes to technical
references.
Do you know, wether the pickaxe (the english original) has “missing
figures” intentionally or whether I simply had used thr wrong link for
downloading ?
(I used
http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/downloads/book.html
for that purpose…)
Thanks a lot!
Meino
–
Bitte Bitte Bitte Bitte Bitte Bitte Bitte Bitte Bitte Bitte Bitte
http://learn.to/quote
Bitte Bitte Bitte Bitte Bitte Bitte Bitte Bitte Bitte Bitte Bitte
You seems to be german, too ! … 
Keep hacking!
Meino
From: Matthias Wieding-Drewes Golgatha@gmx.de
Subject: Re: Ruby newbie Q: Do I have a damaged copy of PickAxe
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 02:55:51 +0900
Hi,
me again!
Sorry for all that !
I didn’t read the source, Luke…
There is a little text, I now found at the linked page:
“This is a first draft of a fairly complex conversion of the original
LaTeX source. Most diagrams have not been converted. There are some
known formatting issues. This version includes Bernard Delm?s jump
table: a pseudo-index generated by collecting together all the
cross-references in the book.”
Now everything becomes more clear ! ;))
Again, sorry for all that !
Keep hacking!
Meino
Please allow me to jump in this thread.
I am a newbie to Ruby and I love this language.
It is nice to be able to see the figures on your pages at
http://home.vr-web.de/~juergen.katins/ruby/book/index.html
Unfortunately the navigation tags at the bottom of the pages are missing
(next, previous, content)
Or am I not looking at the right place ?
Greetz,
Xavier.
katze wrote:
Meino Christian Cramer Meino.Cramer@gmx.de wrote in message news:20030824.192813.59678555.Meino.Cramer@gmx.de…
Hi,
just a question:
While reading through “The PickAxe” “Programming in Ruby” I found
“missing figures” named “Figure not available…”.Do I have a damaged copy if this fine manual or is it because there
is a commercial version also ?Kind regards,
MeinoHallo Meino
I can assure you that the german translation is very precise. I think it
is more precise than the german (paper) version you can buy. If you
prefer an english original with figures and inserted text fragments
(which are missing in the official online version) you should look at
the english version on my site. You can download it, too.greetings
Juergen Katins
Hallo Meino
I can assure you that the german translation is very precise. I think it
is more precise than the german (paper) version you can buy. If you
prefer an english original with figures and inserted text fragments
(which are missing in the official online version) you should look at
the english version on my site. You can download it, too.greetings
Juergen Katins
Hi Juergen !
Thanks for your reply !
…sorry…may be a real dumb question ™ … but…
The link to your sote / homepage is… ?
Keep hacking!
Meino
From: juergen.katins@web.de (katze)
Subject: Re: Ruby newbie Q: Do I have a damaged copy of PickAxe
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 15:24:04 +0900
Converting the book fro the original LaTeX proved to be harder than I
expected, as none of the conventional tools worked with our markup. As
a result, I had to write the conversion scripts myself. After 2-3 weeks
off charge, I simple ran out of time to implement the conversions from
PIC and PSTricks to .png for the figures. Hence, the figures are
missing in the online version. Nothing sinister.
Cheers
Dave
On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 04:38 PM, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
Do you know, wether the pickaxe (the english original) has “missing
figures” intentionally or whether I simply had used thr wrong link for
downloading ?
Converting the book fro the original LaTeX proved to be harder than I
expected, as none of the conventional tools worked with our markup. As
a result, I had to write the conversion scripts myself. After 2-3 weeks
off charge, I simple ran out of time to implement the conversions from
PIC and PSTricks to .png for the figures. Hence, the figures are
missing in the online version. Nothing sinister.Cheers
Dave
Hi Dave !
Thank you for your reply and for the PickAxe, of course !
I haven’t thought of anything “sinister” while figuring out, wether I
have got a damaged copy or an “intentionally without figures”-copy of
the PickAxe…with “intentionally” I meant “the opposite of
‘accidentally’”. My English isn’t that good, since it isn’t my
mother’s tongue.
Please apologize if my words sounds negatively in any way – it
wasn’t meant that way…
Kind regards,
Meino
“With any programming language it is possible to write Fortran programs…”
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From: Dave Thomas Dave@PragProg.com
Subject: Re: Ruby newbie Q: Do I have a damaged copy of PickAxe
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 11:23:37 +0900