Nice one, Norman. Thank you. Im sure God wrote large parts of the
Universe in MC68 assembler. Your anthology should help ease future
generations into its mysteries ;)
Season's best to you too!
Per
On 03/12/2014 21:42, Norman Dunbar 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.
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