I've tried many different fonts in the browser, to no avail. And as an
aside, the *DEFAULT* font in a browser should display very well. It
doesn't; not in IE, not in FF.
some fonts look very ugly in all browsers if you have switched off font
smoothing. eg. on windows this is the case if you
On 7/11/2011 1:22 AM, Mirko Pilger wrote:
some fonts look very ugly in all browsers if you have switched off font
smoothing. eg. on windows this is the case if you have reduced or turned off
all ui effects and disabled the cleartype subpixel rendering.
I've dinked around with those settings on
I've dinked around with those settings on IE and FF. Doesn't make much
of any difference.
i should have emphasized it better that i was talking about system
settings.
for example on windows xp you can activate cleartype by right clicking
the desktop- properties- appearance- effects- use the
On 7/11/2011 1:51 AM, Mirko Pilger wrote:
I've dinked around with those settings on IE and FF. Doesn't make much
of any difference.
i should have emphasized it better that i was talking about system settings.
for example on windows xp you can activate cleartype by right clicking the
desktop-
Looking at my screen with a magnifying glass, it has no effect I can see
on the browser fonts.
i've attached a png image to show how cleartype effects font rendering
in google chrome on my system (windows xp professional sp3).
the example site is http://www.google.com/webfonts.
on the left
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On 09.07.2011 8:59, Jordi Sayol wrote:
Al 09/07/11 06:20, En/na Walter Bright ha escrit:
Amazon has a kindle app for Windows which will display it, there's
probably one for Linux too.
'fbreader'
On 7/11/2011 7:03 AM, Mike James wrote:
I tried the convertfiles website. It converted the file to PDF but the
Formatting went to pot... A lot of blank pages inserted.
I downloaded a free mobireader for Windows PC from here:
http://www.mobipocket.com/en/DownloadSoft/ProductDetailsReader.asp
Thomas,
On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 10:19 +0200, Thomas Mader wrote:
Am 09.07.2011 07:13 schrieb Russel Winder rus...@russel.org.uk:
(It appears that Go now assumes you have 100% connectivity to the
Internet 100% of the time both for execution and development :-(
Please tell more about this
Thanks for explaining this, Russel.
For me this looks like a nice feature even though i realize that it can and
will be frustrating if people use it the wrong way.
I can imagine that it is helpful for importing different tags or branches of
something for testing purposes and the like. But only for
On 7/10/2011 1:02 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
Development, and particularly compilation, is a different matter. The
introduction of the ability to import from a non-local Git, Mercurial or
Bazaar repository embeds the assumption of permanent connectivity of the
developer's machine to the Internet.
Am 10.07.2011 12:19, schrieb Walter Bright:
On 7/10/2011 1:02 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
Development, and particularly compilation, is a different matter. The
introduction of the ability to import from a non-local Git, Mercurial or
Bazaar repository embeds the assumption of permanent connectivity
On 09.07.2011 8:59, Jordi Sayol wrote:
Al 09/07/11 06:20, En/na Walter Bright ha escrit:
Amazon has a kindle app for Windows which will display it, there's probably one
for Linux too.
'fbreader' properly handle 'dlangspec.mobi' on Ubuntu 11.04
Best regards,
You can also try this file
On 07/09/2011 01:12 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
Whilst e-books and tablets may be the current fashion, PDF is still the
most portable document distribution format.
I don't get it. HTML flows correctly to different screen sizes, unlike
PDF. HTML is widely portable. Where's the advantage to PDF?
On 7/10/2011 8:31 AM, Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
I don't get it. HTML flows correctly to different screen sizes, unlike PDF. HTML
is widely portable. Where's the advantage to PDF?
For reasons that are a mystery to me, the same text on the same operating system
on the same display will render much
On 7/10/2011 1:11 PM, Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
Were you using the same fonts in the browser as the PDF?
I've tried many different fonts in the browser, to no avail. And as an aside,
the *DEFAULT* font in a browser should display very well. It doesn't; not in IE,
not in FF.
Personally, I've
On 7/8/11 9:20 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/8/2011 8:58 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
Is there a PDF of this? The URL http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/ has a
link to a PDF page
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguageSpecification/PDFArchive
which has a circualr reference back to the Digital
On 7/9/2011 12:05 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
I don't think the current approach to generating PDFs is good - it's essentially
using a bridge for generating PDF from HTML.
What we need is a set of macros to generate TeX from ddoc followed by
compilation. That will produce beautiful PDF
On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 06:59 +0200, Jordi Sayol wrote:
[ . . . ]
'fbreader' properly handle 'dlangspec.mobi' on Ubuntu 11.04
I loaded fbreader on Debian Testing and it can read the file -- not sure
it is properly though, there seems to be a lot of formatting missing.
--
Russel.
On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 22:36 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
[ . . . ]
I understand, and I'll see about generating a pdf.
Thanks.
However, although the e-readers can read pdf's, they do so very badly,
because
pdf's are designed for 8*11.5 paper, and will not reflow the text for the
smaller
On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 00:24 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/9/2011 12:05 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
I don't think the current approach to generating PDFs is good - it's
essentially
using a bridge for generating PDF from HTML.
What we need is a set of macros to generate TeX from
Very nice!
Maybe it is also possible that you create an epub. It is the most widley
used ebook format and it seems to be possible to genarate the kindle format
out of it.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats#IDPF.2FEPUB
I would go for epub since it is the most widley
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Russel Winder rus...@russel.org.uk wrote:
On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 22:36 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
[ . . . ]
I understand, and I'll see about generating a pdf.
Thanks.
However, although the e-readers can read pdf's, they do so very badly,
because
pdf's
Am 09.07.2011 07:13 schrieb Russel Winder rus...@russel.org.uk:
(It appears that Go now assumes you have 100% connectivity to the
Internet 100% of the time both for execution and development :-(
Please tell more about this or give some references I am very interested.
On 2011-07-09 07:36, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/8/2011 10:12 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
Whilst e-books and tablets may be the current fashion, PDF is still the
most portable document distribution format. It would be good if PDFs
were made and released -- especially for those of us who do most of
Al 09/07/11 09:55, En/na Russel Winder ha escrit:
I loaded fbreader on Debian Testing and it can read the file -- not sure
it is properly though, there seems to be a lot of formatting missing.
You're right. Many format messing wen open with fbreader.
As Andrew Wiley said, calibre's viewer
On 7/9/2011 11:30 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
Here's a binary of it. Try it out on your ebook reader!
http://digitalmars.com/d/2.0/dlangspec.mobi
Awesome... But I'm using an iPad and don't plan on using the kindle
software because requires me to open an account with Amazon -- Not
interested.
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(It appears that Go now assumes you have 100% connectivity to the
Internet 100% of the time both for execution and development :-(
About what I'd expect from the #1
The code to generate the first D spec ebook is now checked in to
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/d-programming-language.org
You'll need to download kindlegen from Amazon to generate the actual ebook.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8docId=1000234621
To build:
make -f
Here's a binary of it. Try it out on your ebook reader!
http://digitalmars.com/d/2.0/dlangspec.mobi
On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 19:30 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
Here's a binary of it. Try it out on your ebook reader!
http://digitalmars.com/d/2.0/dlangspec.mobi
Walter,
Is there a PDF of this? The URL http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/ has a
link to a PDF page
On 7/8/2011 8:58 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
Is there a PDF of this? The URL http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/ has a
link to a PDF page
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguageSpecification/PDFArchive
which has a circualr reference back to the Digital Mars site and no PDF
about D 2.0, just
On 7/8/2011 10:12 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
Whilst e-books and tablets may be the current fashion, PDF is still the
most portable document distribution format. It would be good if PDFs
were made and released -- especially for those of us who do most of our
coding whilst disconnected from the
On 7/8/2011 9:59 PM, Jordi Sayol wrote:
Al 09/07/11 06:20, En/na Walter Bright ha escrit:
Amazon has a kindle app for Windows which will display it, there's probably one
for Linux too.
'fbreader' properly handle 'dlangspec.mobi' on Ubuntu 11.04
That's good to know! Russel?
Al 09/07/11 07:12, En/na Russel Winder ha escrit:
I suspect I must be in a community of 1 :-)
...a community of 2... at least :-)
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