Norman Dunbar schreef op 3/12/2014 om 21:42:
Christmas is coming,
Norm is getting fat,
Time to put something,
In everyone's hat!
Ok, I'll stop doing the "poetry"!
Edition 2 of the eMagazine is in progress, there's still time to sign
up if you haven't already, but what I have managed to do is take all
the previous articles that were published in QL Today over the many
years, and merge them together (with George's corrections of course!)
into a small PDF book of about 300 odd pages.
The various ASCII Art diagrams have been redone as "dot" files which
then get converted to png images with Graphviz. A nice tool when yo
can get your head around it! You describe the diagram you want and it
draws it for you.
All the linked list images and such like have been changed to proper
images now.
The original articles have been run through a tool called db2latex
which takes my original source files in Docbook XML format, and spits
out a pile of "latex" files (pronounced Lay-tech, as in a Scottish
loch as opposed to an English lock!)
These were modified slightly to add captions etc to the diagrams and
(most of) the tables, then typeset with pdfLatex to produce the book
you will find at:
http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/downloads/QLToday/QL_Assembly.pdf.
I hope you enjoy it. I know from some of the feedback I've received
since March (yes, it really was back in March that issue 1 came out!)
that some people wanted a beginners' section. Hopefully this helps!
Happy (early) Christmas and/or whatever Winter festival you celebrate.
Cheers,
Norm.
Many thanks Norm.
François Van Emelen
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