Computer Science Canada An alpha release of my OpenCOBOL FAQ as a book; shameless self-promotion |
| Author: | btiffin [ Sun Mar 20, 2011 11:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | An alpha release of my OpenCOBOL FAQ as a book; shameless self-promotion |
I'm excited. I've just about finished the conversion from ReStructuredText to LaTeX for the OpenCOBOL FAQ. I still have about 300 overfull box warnings to deal with, and a few hundred more Reserved Word entries to complete, but it looks like a book now. It (that being a book) wasn't the original intent of the FAQ, but now it is. LaTeX and dvipdf seems to have done a wonderful job of making it all pretty like. 455 pages thus far, changing rapidly. 3.6 meg PDF. I'll pick an open document license soon, but as it's not really ready, it's still plain old copyright me. Click http://opencobol.add1tocobol.com/alphaocfaq.pdf if you like to see works in progress. Original rst is as always still at http://opencobol.add1tocobol.com Note that this is not yet complete, I still have a lot of over full, truncated text to deal with that needs to curmudgeon'ed to fit into book format. If anyone has any favourite LaTeX tips and/or tricks (especially in the area of getting long URLs to fit a page) to share, I'll be a willing listener. Cheers |
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| Author: | Brightguy [ Mon Mar 21, 2011 4:32 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: An alpha release of my OpenCOBOL FAQ as a book; shameless self-promotion |
For long URLs, the url package provides a \url command which works good. Heh, you might not want to get me started about LaTeX (I usually spot at least one TeX formatting error in every paper I read). You do have a legitimate math error on page 174 (sum instead of integral). |
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| Author: | btiffin [ Thu Mar 24, 2011 10:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:An alpha release of my OpenCOBOL FAQ as a book; shameless self-promotion |
Thanks Brightguy; My first pass over the warnings starts this weekend. I've noted your math symbol issue. And yeah, I'm toggling on \url versus straight up \href as the plan is for a "useful" print form. That means not hiding the actual URIs. Not sure yet. I might use something like a URL reference page; try and keep the online version sharp looking, and still give any print readers a chance to see the real information. Cheers |
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