On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 11:57:05 UTC, Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> I mean there is a lot of typo (for e.g. multiple ';' chars at the end of line, import std.stdio : writeln;;;)


Blargh, the code got screwed up something nasty through the revision process (chapter 6 especially, the spacing got totally butchered, the end of virtually every line had random characters, wtf, the file got changed from a .doc to a .docx in that process too which i suspect is to blame) and I thought I fixed all those in the final draft but apparently not...

I suspect that'll get better past chapter 1; chapter one needed so much content revision that I didn't spend as much time on the punctuation in the review process.

On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 12:05:43 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 11:57:05 UTC, Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>> I mean there is a lot of typo (for e.g. multiple ';' chars at the end of line, import std.stdio : writeln;;;)
>
>
> Blargh, the code got screwed up something nasty through the revision process (chapter 6 especially, the spacing got totally butchered, the end of virtually every line had random characters, wtf, the file got changed from a .doc to a .docx in that process too which i suspect is to blame) and I thought I fixed all those in the final draft but apparently not...
>
> I suspect that'll get better past chapter 1; chapter one needed so much content revision that I didn't spend as much time on the punctuation in the review process.

Tell me about formatting getting lost while re-formatting. But why on earth do people (publishers / editors) still insist on using .doc and .docx (i.e. MS)!? This is to invite disaster. Laziness? Saving money? Nah, you'll work and pay more in the end. Incompetence? I dunno.

On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 12:59:59 UTC, Chris wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 12:05:43 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 11:57:05 UTC, Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>>> I mean there is a lot of typo (for e.g. multiple ';' chars at the end of line, import std.stdio : writeln;;;)
>>
>>
>> Blargh, the code got screwed up something nasty through the revision process (chapter 6 especially, the spacing got totally butchered, the end of virtually every line had random characters, wtf, the file got changed from a .doc to a .docx in that process too which i suspect is to blame) and I thought I fixed all those in the final draft but apparently not...
>>
>> I suspect that'll get better past chapter 1; chapter one needed so much content revision that I didn't spend as much time on the punctuation in the review process.
>
> Tell me about formatting getting lost while re-formatting. But why on earth do people (publishers / editors) still insist on using .doc and .docx (i.e. MS)!? This is to invite disaster. Laziness? Saving money? Nah, you'll work and pay more in the end. Incompetence? I dunno.

Will epub version be available too?

On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 13:27:56 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:
> Will epub version be available too?

Yeah, I think it is already on the packt website.

On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 16:38:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

>> http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book
>
> I just agreed with Packt to write a foreword for the book. -- Andrei


I just read the foreword. It's great!

On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 14:20:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 13:27:56 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:
>> Will epub version be available too?
>
> Yeah, I think it is already on the packt website.

I'm looking at getting the ebook version - does that version include the errata described above?

-<mike>-

On 28/05/2014 9:00 AM, Mike James wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 14:20:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 13:27:56 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:
>>> Will epub version be available too?
>>
>> Yeah, I think it is already on the packt website.
>
> I'm looking at getting the ebook version - does that version include the
> errata described above?
>
> -<mike>-
 I've not checked them side-by-side the whole way through but the ePub does have the same triple colons as the PDF.

the ePub uses colour instead of font weight for the keywords in the text and the notes and tips are styled differently, but as far as I've seen so far the content is the same.

A...

On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 09:06:12 UTC, Alix Pexton wrote:
> On 28/05/2014 9:00 AM, Mike James wrote:
>>
>> On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 14:20:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 13:27:56 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:
>>>> Will epub version be available too?
>>>
>>> Yeah, I think it is already on the packt website.
>>
>> I'm looking at getting the ebook version - does that version include the
>> errata described above?
>>
>> -<mike>-
>  I've not checked them side-by-side the whole way through but the ePub does have the same triple colons as the PDF.
>
> the ePub uses colour instead of font weight for the keywords in the text and the notes and tips are styled differently, but as far as I've seen so far the content is the same.
>
> A...

Thanks. As 'early adopters' do we get a chance to upgrade :-)

-<mike>-

On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 08:01:00 UTC, Mike James wrote:
> I'm looking at getting the ebook version - does that version include the errata described above?

Yeah, those errors were in the .doc I sent in after revisions on chapter 1 and we didn't catch them in the final draft. But the subsequent chapters did them all right so hopefully people won't be turned off by the (IMO fairly weak anyway) first chapter before things get interesting later on.

On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 10:00:01 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:
> On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 19:58:10 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> On 5/6/2014 9:11 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 12:40:48 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:
>>>> Any way to see the TOC?
>>>
>>> Hmm, not on the website yet but here it is.
>> > [snip]
>>
>> Sounds awesome!
>
> Jus got mail from PacktPub: D Cookbook is now released:
>
> http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book
>
> Congratz!

Thanks for the update.  I have the pdf loaded up now, looking forward to going through it.