Packt is looking for someone to author a Learning D

2015-02-14 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
I got an email from the publisher of my D Cookbook asking me to write another book on D. From their email: We have recently commissioned a book on D, titled ' Learning D '. This book will have approximately 400 pages and and the vision behind this book is to introduce practical concepts and

Re: Packt is looking for someone to author a Learning D

2015-02-14 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 14 February 2015 at 16:51:20 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: I would have said they have permission to commission/contract. yeah, me too, but I know what they meant. What is their workflow these days? idk if it has changed in the last year, but mine was done on MS Word as well.

Re: Packt is looking for someone to author a Learning D

2015-02-14 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sat, 2015-02-14 at 16:54 +, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: idk if it has changed in the last year, but mine was done on MS Word as well. They provide a template then you follow it and give them the .doc. The editors then give back the .doc with comments attached.

Re: Packt is looking for someone to author a Learning D

2015-02-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/14/15 9:13 AM, Israel wrote: On Saturday, 14 February 2015 at 16:25:30 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: We have recently commissioned a book on D, titled ' Learning D '. This book will have approximately 400 pages and and the vision behind this book is to introduce practical concepts and tasks

Re: Packt is looking for someone to author a Learning D

2015-02-14 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sat, 2015-02-14 at 16:25 +, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: I got an email from the publisher of my D Cookbook asking me to write another book on D. From their email: We have recently commissioned a book on D, titled ' Learning D '. This book will have approximately

Re: Packt is looking for someone to author a Learning D

2015-02-14 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 14 February 2015 at 17:04:24 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: Obviously XeLaTeX is the correct medium, but AsciiDoc is acceptable as a second best. During the editing of the Russian translation of TDPL, I've worked in MS Word as well. Probably its main advantage is its collaboration

Re: Packt is looking for someone to author a Learning D

2015-02-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/14/15 10:15 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Saturday, 14 February 2015 at 17:04:24 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: Obviously XeLaTeX is the correct medium, but AsciiDoc is acceptable as a second best. During the editing of the Russian translation of TDPL, I've worked in MS Word as well.

Re: Packt is looking for someone to author a Learning D

2015-02-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/14/15 9:04 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Sat, 2015-02-14 at 16:54 +, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: idk if it has changed in the last year, but mine was done on MS Word as well. They provide a template then you follow it and give them the

Re: Packt is looking for someone to author a Learning D

2015-02-14 Thread Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 14 February 2015 at 16:25:30 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I got an email from the publisher of my D Cookbook asking me to write another book on D. From their email: We have recently commissioned a book on D, titled ' Learning D '. This book will have approximately 400 pages and and

Re: Calypso: Direct and full interfacing to C++

2015-02-14 Thread Kelly via Digitalmars-d-announce
Ok, I have pushed my changes to Calypso on github. I did this mostly for testing because I wanted to make sure things still compiled on linux. Unfortunately, we need specific versions of llvm and clang to get things compiled as ldc2 hasn't been updated to the bleeding edge as of today. The

Re: Packt is looking for someone to author a Learning D

2015-02-14 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 14 February 2015 at 18:15:09 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Saturday, 14 February 2015 at 17:04:24 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: Obviously XeLaTeX is the correct medium, but AsciiDoc is acceptable as a second best. During the editing of the Russian translation of TDPL, I've