> On December 3, 2014 at 8:42 PM Norman Dunbar <nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk> wrote: > > > 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. >
Many thanks Norm - a huge amount of re-reading there as I enjoyed your original articles - it is nicely laid out and easy to pick out the actual assembly listings which is useful. Rich Mellor RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk www.sellmyretro.com _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
