Effective D book?

Jonathan M Davis jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Sun Jun 16 13:36:21 PDT 2013


On Sunday, June 16, 2013 09:53:55 Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/15/2013 3:19 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > For the book that I'm working on, I'm really not going to worry about the
> > title at this point. I'm just going to write it, and I'll worry about
> > stuff
> > like the title and who might publish it or anything along those lines once
> > it's much closer to completion.
> 
> +1
> 
> Also, I wouldn't worry about formatting until it's near completion, either.

I tend to worry about things like how paragraphs are separated and which words 
get emphasized as I go along (the same sorts of things that I'd worry about in 
a simple forum post), but I'm not going to worry about minute formatting 
details like mdash or ndash or anything like that. And I won't worry about the 
font style or page layout or anything along those lines until much later. 
Without having a bunch of text, I don't know how you'd be able to sort that 
out very well anyway, since you wouldn't be able to see what your tweaks did. 
But I _am_ doing enough formatting to care about whether I need $(P ) or not - 
just not a whole lot beyond that.

- Jonathan M Davis


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