[REBOL] Re: Index Needed In Rebol Users Guide
From: carl:cybercraft at: 13-Jan-2002 20:16
On 13-Jan-02, Dr. Louis A. Turk wrote:
> Carl,
> I'm glad you brought this up. One of the biggest aggravations in
> trying to learn rebol is not having an index in the printed User
> Guide. A really good index is vital in my opinion. I have to bring
> up an on-line version and run a search. That works fine if I am at
> my computer, but I learn best relaxing in a nice overstuffed chair
> with my feet up. I strongly hope the need edition of the users guide
> will have a good index.
I've thought of writing a script to parse the HTML version of the
guide and somehow generate an index from that, but I'm sure it's a
lot easier to say than do, and how you'd get the book's page numbers
from the HTML version I wouldn't know - perhaps you'd have to take
the PDF version into account as well. Would be an interesting
exercise, but I would've much prefered to just spend a few extra
dollars for a book with an index.
> It would also be fine with me for the manual to be set in slightly
> smaller type so that sample scripts don't have to be split across
> pages. But then I have good eyes for seeing up close. Other's might
> not like this. But I think everyone would like to have a really good
> (complete) index.
> By the way does anyone know when the next edition will be coming
> out?
The last mention on this list from RT that I can remember was that
they were typing as fast as they could on a View guide, but that was
many, many (full) moons ago. I assume it'll appear after the next
View makes an appearance. (But please don't ask when that'll be:)
> Louis
> At 11:47 AM 1/11/2002 +1200, you wrote:
>> The few experiments I did seemed to indicate you'd save about 1
>> line in ten. I wonder how much shorter it would've made the Core
>> User Guide? Save enough pages to give it an index with no extra
>> cost perhaps? (;
--
Carl Read
