Christmas is coming,
Norm is getting fat,
Time to put something,
In everyone's hat!
Ok, I'll stop doing the "poetry"!
Edition 2 of the eMagazine is in progress, there's still time to sign up
if you haven't already, but what I have managed to do is take all the
previous articles that were published in QL Today over the many years,
and merge them together (with George's corrections of course!) into a
small PDF book of about 300 odd pages.
The various ASCII Art diagrams have been redone as "dot" files which
then get converted to png images with Graphviz. A nice tool when yo can
get your head around it! You describe the diagram you want and it draws
it for you.
All the linked list images and such like have been changed to proper
images now.
The original articles have been run through a tool called db2latex which
takes my original source files in Docbook XML format, and spits out a
pile of "latex" files (pronounced Lay-tech, as in a Scottish loch as
opposed to an English lock!)
These were modified slightly to add captions etc to the diagrams and
(most of) the tables, then typeset with pdfLatex to produce the book you
will find at:
http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/downloads/QLToday/QL_Assembly.pdf.
I hope you enjoy it. I know from some of the feedback I've received
since March (yes, it really was back in March that issue 1 came out!)
that some people wanted a beginners' section. Hopefully this helps!
Happy (early) Christmas and/or whatever Winter festival you celebrate.
Cheers,
Norm.
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Norman Dunbar
Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd
Registered address:
27a Lidget Hill
Pudsey
West Yorkshire
United Kingdom
LS28 7LG
Company Number: 05132767
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