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Re: Who'd also pay for a programming book/PDF
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Michael Piotrowski |
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Re: Who'd also pay for a programming book/PDF |
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10 Jul 2001 23:49:05 +0200 |
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"Graham Douglas" <address@hidden> writes:
> Obviously, Jeff has put a fantastic amount of work
> into giving us *free* software (and source code)
> and *free* documentation but Lout really needs
> a full, step-by-step, programming tutorial/manual
> (IMHO). Personally, and I restate *personally*, I think that
> a full programming manual (tutorial) would be so
> useful that charging a fee for it (around US$40?) would
> be totally acceptable; after all we are getting a great
> tool and online support for *free*.
I agree. The existing Lout documentation is very good *and* it's
free. But I also think a book between the User's Guide and the
Expert's Guide (Power User's Guide? Aspiring Expert's Guide) would be
a great thing to have: Everything you need to know is probably
documented in the Expert's Guide, but personally I find it difficult
to get started with it. (And I do have enough things I'd like to
implement...)
> Jeff, have you any objections to this idea?
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong but it is unlikely that
> commercial publishers will, in the near future,
> produce books about Lout (as they do for TeX/LaTeX).
They quite certainly won't commission someone to write a book about
Lout. I could imagine, though, that they might accept a submission.
However, the problem is probably not to get it published, but to get
it written.
On the other hand, writing a book might be a good incentive to really
dive into Lout...
--
Michael Piotrowski, M.A. <address@hidden>