A tutorial on D templates

[Walter Bright]

On 1/14/2012 3:21 AM, Philippe Sigaud wrote:
>> I strongly encourage you to continue with it, and release it as a book. We
>> could sure use another book on D!
>
> Uh, I don't think it'll ever be a book. I didn't write it with a book in mind.

It looks like a book, and I see no reason why it can't be. It'll see far wider 
distribution as a book.


>> I strongly suggest making the formatting work for a Kindle edition of your
>> book. PDF files do badly on e-readers.
>
> What I want (maybe in 1-2 months) is to write a simple D script that
> takes the .tex files and transform them into simple marked-up text, to
> produce a DDoc file or an HTML one.

Kindle ebooks can be automatically generated from HTML text with the 
kindlegen.exe program downloadable from Amazon. I have the D specification 
automatically "kindle-izable" in the makefile for dlang.org.

The main issue is the short line length, which negatively impacts examples and 
tables.

Another issue is Kindle is black & white, so while the colored text does make it 
better, it should still be usable if rendered in black & white (which should be 
done anyway, as many people are color blind).