D programming language specification ebook

Russel Winder russel at russel.org.uk
Sat Jul 9 01:03:49 PDT 2011


On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 00:24 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/9/2011 12:05 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> > I don't think the current approach to generating PDFs is good - it's essentially
> > using a bridge for generating PDF from HTML.
> >
> > What we need is a set of macros to generate TeX from ddoc followed by
> > compilation. That will produce beautiful PDF files. I'll get to that once the
> > Kindle pipeline is finished.
> >
> > BTW we can choose the page size to be different from 8.5*11, but indeed
> > reflowing is not possible.
> 
> I think the pdf should be set at 8.5*11 so it will serve as the version of the 
> document most suitable for printing.

In the USA, Canada and Mexico maybe.  In the rest of the world A4 is the
paper size to use.

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