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DrCoolZic wrote:I was looking for a book to start on GEM and C-Manship does a good job on the subject. Thanks for providing the book.
I suspect that the convertion to .hyp file was done to stay close with the original book? I am asking the question because the the paragraph are splitted in odd places that makes the reading difficult and to be honest I hate .hyp files....
Therefore to make the book more readable I have started to convert to pdf but this is a lot of work...
You'll find attached the first 6 chapters. Any interest ???
DrCoolZic wrote:I was looking for a book to start on GEM and C-Manship does a good job on the subject. Thanks for providing the book.
I suspect that the convertion to .hyp file was done to stay close with the original book? I am asking the question because the the paragraph are splitted in odd places that makes the reading difficult and to be honest I hate .hyp files....
This make sense, but it only requires to redo the index as I have done for the TOC in the example.lp wrote:Yes, the page layout is that of the actual book, otherwise the index would have to be all redone as the page numbers become messed up and I wanted to be able to use the index. Looking up stuff is important to me so I wanted to retain the index of the actual book.
I guess my goal is different: I do not want to look at the book on a real Atari as I will not make any developement on a real Atari. My goal is to be able to print the book to read "off line" and to be able to use it as a reference with all the hyperlink on a PC running Steem while doing development. This is the reasons why pdf is suitable for me, but html or chm would also be OK.Well I don't really like PDF myself, but then PDF ain't so hot on a real Atari. Making a PDF on an Atari is probably not even possible? I don't know, but somehow I doubt it.
DrCoolZic wrote:I guess my goal is different: I do not want to look at the book on a real Atari as I will not make any developement on a real Atari. My goal is to be able to print the book to read "off line" and to be able to use it as a reference with all the hyperlink on a PC running Steem while doing development. This is the reasons why pdf is suitable for me, but html or chm would also be OK.
The main reason I am doing development on PC is that I can have a decent environment that includes a very powerful editor (actual code shown in my translation are comming from it) than has key colored display, powerful find and replace, intellisense, etc... + Doxygen for documentation purpose + CVS for revision control +++
lp wrote:I don't mind the PDF port, it's helpful, but you could at least retain the original porting credits? I spent a lot of time on that, wrote a program to extract the text from something like 30 or so individual files, formatted it all, fixed all the fonts that were characters (wingdats), some of the images I made by hand because I could not get Calamus to export them correctly.
DrCoolZic wrote:NEW UPDATE - I JUST RELEASED A NEW VERSION WITH CREDIT TO YOU see page 3 of the document
viewtopic.php?f=70&t=14954&p=128273#p128273
Let me know if this is OK for you or I can modify the text
Thanks
Jean
lp wrote:I wish I could get my hands on some more books like that, but so far all the others I've tried to track down didn't bother to keep copies of their work in electronic form. Most even say, they don't have a copy of their own book in print as well. Pity.
DrCoolZic wrote:By the way are you the person who maintain the wonderfull Atari documentation archive ? If so I think that I have some doc that may be of interest ?
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