TDPL stats

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Justin Johansson wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Steve Teale wrote:
>>> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:56:33 -0600, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>
>>>> Status: copyediting (I'm in a holding pattern) Pages excluding front 
>>>> and
>>>> back matter: 425 Passing unittests: 5363 lines
>>>> Failing unittests: 841 lines
>>>>
>>>> Andrei
>>>
>>> Horrible process. Are they going to do the index, or do you have that 
>>> joy?
>>
>> "Near death" is more like it. But I hope the result was worth the fuss.
>>
>> I'll do my own index. By choice!
>>
>>
>> Andrei
> 
> I read once that Donald Knuth didn't like what his publisher &
> type-setter were doing for one of his CS books so he decided to
> do his own type-setting.  Also by choice.  The result, of course,
> was TeX.
> 
> Justin

Much as I love my name being mentioned next to Knuth's, I doubt anything 
like TeX will come out of my decision :o). Anyhow, the making of TDPL 
was a very interesting experience. I hope one day to write an article 
about it.


Andrei