[Lazarus] Lazarus handbook environment proposal

[Salvatore Coppola]

Clear, thanks

Il giorno sab 23 mag 2020 alle ore 09:15 Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus <
lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> ha scritto:

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> On Sat, 23 May 2020, Salvatore Coppola via lazarus wrote:
>
> > Goodmorning people,
> > some of us are waiting in presale for the Lazarus Handbook. I've read
> from
> > Detlef that will be printed soon. I've seen on Blaisepascal site that
> > will'be distributed both paper and pdf. Btw there are about 1600 pages
> and
> > many are analytic index so, for actual knowledgew of peoples at nowdays,
> > analytics index is useless (specially if we have th pdf), so the proposal
> > for the Editor (Blaisepascal) is, if we are in time, strip from the the
> > handbook this pages, the handbook will remain excellent as well and a
> tree
> > will thank. What do you thinks
>
> The previews you got till now were test versions. In particular the index
> was
> auto-generated which of course resulted in an unusable large index.
>
> We realized the book was to big, so we have recently done some efforts to
> reduce the paper usage:
> - Reduce use of different fonts, use 10 pt instead of 11pt.
> - Remove borders around images.
> - The index will be hand-crafted to a more reasonable size.
> This reduces the amount of pages drastically, so the final book
> will definitely not be 1600 pages.
>
> The work is not done yet, so we don't know the actual outcome, but based on
> some reworked chapters, we suspect it will be more like 900 to 1000 pages.
>
> Michael.
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