Congrats, Matthew! Beautifully done! On Mar 17, 2017 1:07 PM, "Matthew Butterick" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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 > > [2] https://thelocalyarn.com/excursus/secretary/ > > [3] 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. > -- 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.
