Re: Announcement: free Lua 4 Quick Reference booklet

["K. H. Man" <mkh@...>]

Hi all,

Thanks for all the nice feedback.

John Mckenna wrote:
> Roberto Ierusalimschy writes:
> > <snip> I always get one side of each sheet upside-down...
> I did, and it would have worked.  HP something-or-other
> printer, set to double-sided 'book' mode <snip>

Booklet printing is quite a minefield... :-) It occured to me late 
last night that (portrait-duplex != landscape-duplex) in terms of 
how the pages are arranged to be printed. I'll put up an A4/Letter 
version in a day or two; in the meantime, there's the 
OpenOffice.org sources.

> The end result looks great.  I should have made half a dozen,
> because I know this copy is going to fall apart from over-use
> in no time :-)

Well, to make my Perl booklet last longer, I use traditional 
self-adhesive plastic film for the front page, and some cellophane 
reinforcement where the pages are stapled. The plastic film is 
good against coffee spills, too. :-)

I have put the 'updating to ver 5' plans on hold for a short 
while, having not done much yet. Thinking of switching to TeX 
(there are really good reasons for that,) but first I am looking 
into a rather wacko idea -- writing the booklet sources in PS.

PS can be really quite readable if the available PS formatting 
functions are used. As it is, most 'free' PS/PDF conversion 
methods leaves text encoded with fixed formatting information. 
I'll try something small in PS and see if the PS code is 
reasonably :-) readable, editable, malleable and maintainable. 
Directly writing PS eliminates WYSIWYG formatting inconsistencies, 
and eliminates the need to install TeX in order to roll your own 
custom version.

Now, I'll go over to add a Wiki entry...
--
Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia... fiddling with Open Source,
bits and pieces at http://www.geocities.com/keinhong/
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