Re: Is their a *good* online tutorial and reference for Haskell?

1999-08-10 Thread Kevin Atkinson
Byron Hale wrote: > In my experience, people, talking as the "Coward" did, are engaged in a > turf war. Nothing that you do will satisfy them, because their apparent > objective is not their real one. However, the appearance criticism may be > something to actually be addressed. > Here in Silico

Re: Is their a *good* online tutorial and reference for Haskell?

1999-08-10 Thread Francis Girard
"Frank A. Christoph" wrote: > > > These fonts are especially recommended for use with pdfTeX. > > In fact, for > > PDF output one should not even consider applying the bitmap fonts for they > > produce terrible results, whether generated with pdfTeX or with the > > Distiller program. > > Is

RE: Is their a *good* online tutorial and reference for Haskell?

1999-08-10 Thread Mark P Jones
| Is this why the PDF version of the Haskell report looks so strange? On my | system (Win98 and Acrobat Reader 4.0) it looks like the baseline | oscillates up and down between each letter. I find it very difficult to | read. I made a pdf version of the Haskell report using pdflatex; fans of pdf c

RE: Is their a *good* online tutorial and reference for Haskell?

1999-08-10 Thread Frank A. Christoph
> Then an Anonymous Coward replyed: > > Is their a good online tutorial and reference for Haskell? Last time I > looked all I could find were pointers to books and links to Amazon.Com. Oh > yes, and some moldy academic papers in postscript format. I think it would > behoove those in the communitie

Re: Is their a *good* online tutorial and reference for Haskell?

1999-08-10 Thread Kevin Atkinson
Keith Wansbrough wrote: > > > looked all I could find were pointers to books and links to Amazon.Com. Oh > > yes, and some moldy academic papers in postscript format. I think it would > > It would be a good idea for tutorial papers to be available in PDF > format as well (and maybe even HTML if

Acrobat, PDF and PostScript (comma vs. Gamma)

1999-08-10 Thread Fritz K Ruehr
Rob MacAulay wrote: > I agree entirely. I am lucky enough to be able to use Acrobat to > translate to PDF, but this will not be possible for most people. > > Even after conversion to PDF, the fonts used in most PostScript > versions are unclear when viewed on-screen, though they do print > accept

Re: Is their a *good* online tutorial and reference for Haskell?

1999-08-10 Thread Byron Hale
In my experience, people, talking as the "Coward" did, are engaged in a turf war. Nothing that you do will satisfy them, because their apparent objective is not their real one. However, the appearance criticism may be something to actually be addressed. I know of a university library where books

Re: Is their a *good* online tutorial and reference for Haskell?

1999-08-10 Thread Rob MacAulay
To: Kevin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Copies to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Is their a *good* online tutorial and reference for Haskell? Date sent: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 10:51:57 +0100 From: Keith Wansbrough <[

PADL00 DEADLINE EXTENSION

1999-08-10 Thread Vitor Santos Costa
DEADLINE EXTENSION Due to several requests we have decided to extend the deadline for submission to PADL'00 (see call for papers enclosed below) to August 20th, 1999. - Vitor Santos Costa and Enrico Pontelli. Our Apol

Re: Is their a *good* online tutorial and reference for Haskell?

1999-08-10 Thread Keith Wansbrough
> looked all I could find were pointers to books and links to Amazon.Com. Oh > yes, and some moldy academic papers in postscript format. I think it would It would be a good idea for tutorial papers to be available in PDF format as well (and maybe even HTML if it doesn't look too ugly)... PostSc

Re: Is their a *good* online tutorial and reference for Haskell?

1999-08-10 Thread Francis
Maybe this can help (this is about LaTeX and not Haskell ...) The TeX typesetting system uses a bitmap font called Computer Modern invented by D. Knuth. Here is a quotation from "A guide to LaTeX" by Helmut Kopka and Patrick W. Daly, Addison-Wesley, 3rd edition, 1999 on page 457 : The Computer M