On 2012-04-20 11:53, Martin Truebner wrote in ASSEMBLER-LIST:
Did you ever try to copy code from a PDF? As and idea: a funny char aside of the space (in col 1) and an other one in col 10 and col 16 would make it a easy to rebuild source from a (PDF-)printed manual.
1) There's another good reason here to regret IBM's SoD to abandon Bookie in favor of PDF. 1a) I did this many years ago with, IIRC, the very same example in Bookie format. Wasn't too bad. Strip the gutters and filter out the page headers. 1b) I like to distribute README files containing code examples as HTML with the code between <PRE> and </PRE>. Copy the HTML; edit out the (minimal) markup and go. 2) It may depend on your PDF viewer. Some are worse than others (not to call the others better). Many trash the indention. <Grrr/> gil
