[Help-smalltalk] Re: help-smalltalk Digest, Vol 82, Issue 22

[Ralph Boland]

Have you thought of writing it in Lyx instead of Latex.
You get the same great result but with a lot less effort.

Ralph Boland

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>   1. Re: Iliad submissions (Paolo Bonzini)
>   2. Re: "Computer Programming using GNU Smalltalk" is out!
>      (Alexey Zakhlestin)
>   3. Re: "Computer Programming using GNU Smalltalk"    is      out!
>      (Canol Gokel)
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> From: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
> To: nicolas petton <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:49:11 +0200
> Subject: Re: [Help-smalltalk] Iliad submissions
> On 10/15/2009 01:16 PM, nicolas petton wrote:
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>> I feel sad about adding this prefix for gst, because it's completely
>> useless and Iliad.ILWidget looks ugly redundant...
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> I totally agree with your sentiment.  The problem is that while namespaces 
> can be added and removed easily to the pool dictionaries, prefixes would 
> require one rewrite rule per class...
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> Paolo
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> From: Alexey Zakhlestin <address@hidden>
> To: Canol Gokel <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:39:27 +0400
> Subject: Re: [Help-smalltalk] "Computer Programming using GNU Smalltalk" is 
> out!
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> On 04.10.2009, at 21:51, Canol Gokel wrote:
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>> Finally, the book I'm working on for a while is finished. I know that this 
>> book
>> won't add any knowledge to most of the members of this mailing list, since 
>> it is
>> aiming absolute beginners, but if you see someone around willing to learn 
>> what
>> programming and GNU Smalltalk/Smalltalk is about then feel free to recommend 
>> the
>> book.
>>
>> You can grab your copy from:
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>> http://www.canol.info/books/computer_programming_using_gnu_smalltalk/computer_programming_using_gnu_smalltalk.zip
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> Here is the home-printed version ;)
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/indeyets/4015203658/
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> Thanks Canol! I actually like the book. Seems like a good school-book for 
> people who start learning programming.
> Do you plan to release source-code of the book somewhere? There are some 
> inaccuracies within the text and I will be glad to provide patches.
> Github would be the most convenient tool for this, I believe.
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Canol Gokel <address@hidden>
> To:address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:50:06 +0000 (UTC)
> Subject: [Help-smalltalk] Re: "Computer Programming using GNU Smalltalk" is 
> out!
> Alexey Zakhlestin <indeyets <at> gmail.com> writes:
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>>
>>
>> Here is the home-printed version ;)
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/indeyets/4015203658/
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> It looks cool :)
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>> Thanks Canol! I actually like the book. Seems like a good school-book
>> for people who start learning programming.
>> Do you plan to release source-code of the book somewhere? There are
>> some inaccuracies within the text and I will be glad to provide patches.
>> Github would be the most convenient tool for this, I believe.
>>
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> Unfortunately, the book is written with, ehem, OpenOffice Writer. Which is not
> convenient to use with VCSs (and actually not convenient for writing big 
> books).
> I wish I had time to learn and rewrite it in LaTeX or DocBook. Hopefully I'll
> rewrite it in the future (not anytime soon because of my lectures) but in the
> mean time, you might send the inaccuracies to me by email.
>
> I'm also open if anyone else can rewrite the book in one of the languages I
> mentioned above so that the community can work on future releases together. I
> can release the .odt file for convenience if any volunteer comes up...
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