> Great job with Beautiful Racket 1.0, makes the top in hacker news. For > those of us who like to hold a beautiful book, what would be the best > way to go from Beautiful Racket as you created to Beautiful Racket in > dead tree form and still preserve it's beautiful-ness? > > I am unsure if the sources are available but in any case I assume you > could, possibly, provide a PDF from which a hardbook could be printed?
Though I love printed books, and buy many, I have no plans to make BR into a printed book. And definitely not a PDF or ebook. [1] If you're asking more broadly about how to go from Pollen to print, Joel Dueck is the expert on this. [2] If the web is ever going to be taken seriously as a book-publishing platform, then there's no shortcut other than using it to publish books (and refusing these inferior alternatives). [3] That's not just a political posture. Even more so than with Practical Typography, I really enjoyed the reading experience I could create on the web that just wouldn't be possible with print / PDF / ebook. Especially because Racket has such extensive online documentation — readers can detour into that, then return to BR and continue. This is the best representation of the idea. Moreover, the point of the book is to spread the word about Racket. Right now, people on six continents are making their first Racket languages. I couldn't get that reach with a printed book. [1] http://beautifulracket.com/why-you-should-pay.html <http://beautifulracket.com/why-you-should-pay.html> [2] https://thelocalyarn.com/excursus/secretary/ <https://thelocalyarn.com/excursus/secretary/> [3] http://practicaltypography.com/why-theres-no-e-book-or-pdf.html <http://practicaltypography.com/why-theres-no-e-book-or-pdf.html> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pollen" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
