On 1/14/2012 3:21 AM, Philippe Sigaud wrote:
I strongly encourage you to continue with it, and release it as a book. We
could sure use another book on D!
Uh, I don't think it'll ever be a book. I didn't write it with a book in mind.
It looks like a book, and I see no reason why it can't be. It'll see far wider
distribution as a book.
I strongly suggest making the formatting work for a Kindle edition of your
book. PDF files do badly on e-readers.
What I want (maybe in 1-2 months) is to write a simple D script that
takes the .tex files and transform them into simple marked-up text, to
produce a DDoc file or an HTML one.
Kindle ebooks can be automatically generated from HTML text with the
kindlegen.exe program downloadable from Amazon. I have the D specification
automatically "kindle-izable" in the makefile for dlang.org.
The main issue is the short line length, which negatively impacts examples and
tables.
Another issue is Kindle is black & white, so while the colored text does make it
better, it should still be usable if rendered in black & white (which should be
done anyway, as many people are color blind).
