Re: New book: Developing with compile time in mind

2015-02-18 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/17/2015 9:02 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Guess I better find out what AsciiDoc is then. Wee, it has macros: http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/asciidoc.css-embedded.html#_macros Ddoc leads the way in innovation again!

Re: New book: Developing with compile time in mind

2015-02-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/17/15 8:22 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: OK so AsciiDoc is the future for book writing. Guess I better find out what AsciiDoc is then. Wee, it has macros: http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/asciidoc.css-embedded.html#_macros Andrei

Re: New book: Developing with compile time in mind

2015-02-17 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 08:08 -0800, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On 2/17/15 3:49 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: […] My prejudice is that you need XeLaTeX or AsciiDoc for large document writing, especially when targeting press PDF. Mine too.

Re: New book: Developing with compile time in mind

2015-02-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/17/15 3:49 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 16:40 +1300, Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: […] Just let me know any improvements that could be made. Updates are free after all! (Leanpub is amazing, what with markdown writing and

Re: New book: Developing with compile time in mind

2015-02-17 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 16:40 +1300, Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: […] Just let me know any improvements that could be made. Updates are free after all! (Leanpub is amazing, what with markdown writing and all). How did you find Markdown for writing a book? My prejudice

Re: New book: Developing with compile time in mind

2015-02-17 Thread Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 18/02/2015 5:08 a.m., Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 2/17/15 3:49 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 16:40 +1300, Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: […] Just let me know any improvements that could be made. Updates are free after all!

Re: New book: Developing with compile time in mind

2015-02-17 Thread Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 18/02/2015 12:49 a.m., Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Tue, 2015-02-17 at 16:40 +1300, Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: […] Just let me know any improvements that could be made. Updates are free after all! (Leanpub is amazing, what with markdown

New book: Developing with compile time in mind

2015-02-16 Thread Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
Exciting news, my book on CTFE is out[0]. To summarize, it contains most of my knowledge of CTFE in a generic'ish form with examples being in D. There is a bit of talk of what support there can be and what we have. The design patterns are probably the most interesting. If you have any

Re: New book: Developing with compile time in mind

2015-02-16 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/16/2015 3:07 PM, Rikki Cattermole wrote: [0] https://leanpub.com/ctfe Thank you. I bought my copy!

Re: New book: Developing with compile time in mind

2015-02-16 Thread Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 17/02/2015 4:32 p.m., Walter Bright wrote: On 2/16/2015 3:07 PM, Rikki Cattermole wrote: [0] https://leanpub.com/ctfe Thank you. I bought my copy! No problem! Just let me know any improvements that could be made. Updates are free after all! (Leanpub is amazing, what with markdown