My D book is now officially coming soon

Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Tue May 27 05:59:54 PDT 2014


On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 12:05:43 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 11:57:05 UTC, Daniel Kozak via 
> Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>> I mean there is a lot of typo (for e.g. multiple ';' chars at 
>> the end of line, import std.stdio : writeln;;;)
>
>
> Blargh, the code got screwed up something nasty through the 
> revision process (chapter 6 especially, the spacing got totally 
> butchered, the end of virtually every line had random 
> characters, wtf, the file got changed from a .doc to a .docx in 
> that process too which i suspect is to blame) and I thought I 
> fixed all those in the final draft but apparently not...
>
> I suspect that'll get better past chapter 1; chapter one needed 
> so much content revision that I didn't spend as much time on 
> the punctuation in the review process.

Tell me about formatting getting lost while re-formatting. But 
why on earth do people (publishers / editors) still insist on 
using .doc and .docx (i.e. MS)!? This is to invite disaster. 
Laziness? Saving money? Nah, you'll work and pay more in the end. 
Incompetence? I dunno.


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