Language spec in free e-book format

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Apr 8 15:28:39 PDT 2015


On 4/8/15 3:18 PM, weaselcat wrote:
> On Wednesday, 8 April 2015 at 21:42:22 UTC, Nick wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 8 April 2015 at 21:34:00 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 8 April 2015 at 21:29:59 UTC, Nick wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Could you make the language reference available for download in a
>>>> free e-book format, such as EPUB or FB2?
>>>>
>>>> Some people just don't have any app that reads MOBI or Kindle
>>>> format; they are not very common outside some particular devices.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> --
>>>
>>> What's wrong with PDF?
>>
>> It's not the best format for small devices, the heuristical reflow
>> often messes the formatting. Also, the Acrobat app is awful as an
>> e-reader.
>>
>> --
>
> Oh, my apologies - I've never used an actual e-reading device and was
> curious.
>
> AFAIK the docs are written in latex so this shouldn't be that hard to add.

It has been around for a while: follow links to mobi/epub 
fromhttp://dlang.org/spec.html. An older one: 
http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-Specification-Walter-Bright-ebook/dp/B005CCQPKK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1428532031&sr=8-1&keywords=d+language+specification

Andrei



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