Effective D book?

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Sun Jun 16 14:42:01 PDT 2013


On 6/16/2013 1:36 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> 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.

Sure, whatever works best for you! Me, I'm definitely the kind of person who can 
only think about one thing at a time, and when I'm writing text, I just let it 
flow in one uninterrupted stream.

Interestingly enough, most of the grammatical errors in my text come about 
because of editing it later.



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