TDPL stats

[BCS]

Hello Andrei,

> 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
> 

Some kind of word/phrase selector tool would be interesting. Comparing the 
occurrence rate of phrases from your text to some relevant corpus and selecting 
based on that might make for a starting point...

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