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ePub/Mobi/AZW3/PDF of Phobos Runtime Library
Jun 28, 2022
Marcone
Jun 28, 2022
Marcone
Jun 28, 2022
forkit
Jun 28, 2022
Marcone
Jun 28, 2022
Marcone
Jun 28, 2022
forkit
Jun 30, 2022
Sergey
Jun 30, 2022
Marvin
June 28, 2022

Beloved,

I love programming in D. D is my favorite programming language. I'm not a professional programmer, but I love to program. I would like to learn D deeply. Most programming languages have a PDF/CHM/MOBI/ePub version of the standard library. But D still doesn't have such a portable version of the Phobos Runtime Library. I humbly ask you to make available a portable version of the Phobos library, to better disseminate the D programming language.

Thank you

June 28, 2022

On 6/28/22 2:42 PM, Marcone wrote:

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I love programming in D. D is my favorite programming language. I'm not a professional programmer, but I love to program. I would like to learn D deeply. Most programming languages have a PDF/CHM/MOBI/ePub version of the standard library. But D still doesn't have such a portable version of the Phobos Runtime Library. I humbly ask you to make available a portable version of the Phobos library, to better disseminate the D programming language.

We used to have this, it wasn't used, and keeping it building was a drain on resources. What is wrong with the online docs? What dissemination do you think could happen if we had it in these formats that's going to reach people more than the HTML version?

Note that the zipfile has a complete copy of the documentation in html format.

-Steve

June 28, 2022
On Tuesday, 28 June 2022 at 18:42:11 UTC, Marcone wrote:
> Beloved,
>
>
> I love programming in D. D is my favorite programming language. I'm not a professional programmer, but I love to program. I would like to learn D deeply. Most programming languages have a PDF/CHM/MOBI/ePub version of the standard library. But D still doesn't have such a portable version of the Phobos Runtime Library. I humbly ask you to make available a portable version of the Phobos library, to better disseminate the D programming language.
>
>
> Thank you

So assuming i understand what you're asking for here, it already exists.

When you download D, you get a directory named 'html'.

In that directory is a file named 'index.html'.

Is that what you want? (see the Documentation menu at the top of the index.html)

The only problem with that, is that it downloads fonts, so you need access to the internet. It will still work fine without access, but it will default to a font that isn't particulary nice on the eyes.

June 28, 2022

On Tuesday, 28 June 2022 at 19:06:48 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

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On 6/28/22 2:42 PM, Marcone wrote:

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[...]

We used to have this, it wasn't used, and keeping it building was a drain on resources. What is wrong with the online docs? What dissemination do you think could happen if we had it in these formats that's going to reach people more than the HTML version?

Note that the zipfile has a complete copy of the documentation in html format.

-Steve

I wish I could read all the documentation for D on my Kindle ebook reader.

June 28, 2022
On Tuesday, 28 June 2022 at 20:38:10 UTC, forkit wrote:
> On Tuesday, 28 June 2022 at 18:42:11 UTC, Marcone wrote:
>> [...]
>
> So assuming i understand what you're asking for here, it already exists.
>
> When you download D, you get a directory named 'html'.
>
> In that directory is a file named 'index.html'.
>
> Is that what you want? (see the Documentation menu at the top of the index.html)
>
> The only problem with that, is that it downloads fonts, so you need access to the internet. It will still work fine without access, but it will default to a font that isn't particulary nice on the eyes.

I wish I could read D's entire Phobos library on my Kindle ebook reader.
June 28, 2022

Is there any way to do this automatically like Python? https://docs.python.org/3/download.html

June 28, 2022
On Tuesday, 28 June 2022 at 21:14:42 UTC, Marcone wrote:
> Is there any way to do this automatically like Python? https://docs.python.org/3/download.html

Of course there is. But someone has to volunteer their time and effort to do it ;-)
June 30, 2022

On Tuesday, 28 June 2022 at 18:42:11 UTC, Marcone wrote:

>

Beloved,

I love programming in D. D is my favorite programming language. I'm not a professional programmer, but I love to program. I would like to learn D deeply. Most programming languages have a PDF/CHM/MOBI/ePub version of the standard library. But D still doesn't have such a portable version of the Phobos Runtime Library. I humbly ask you to make available a portable version of the Phobos library, to better disseminate the D programming language.

Thank you

Hi there!
First of all at page of Language reference is available Mobi version
https://dlang.org/spec/spec.html

Also please check this thread https://forum.dlang.org/post/qkxtppiaobehdjorocob@forum.dlang.org

There are plenty of links and resources:
https://d-apt.sourceforge.io/

https://devdocs.io/d/

I believe almost everything is ready, someone just should bring it all together and put the up2date links on official web-site in “Offline documentation” page

Have a nice day D-community!

June 30, 2022

On Thursday, 30 June 2022 at 11:00:09 UTC, Sergey wrote:

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On Tuesday, 28 June 2022 at 18:42:11 UTC, Marcone wrote:

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Hi there!
First of all at page of Language reference is available Mobi version
https://dlang.org/spec/spec.html

Also please check this thread https://forum.dlang.org/post/qkxtppiaobehdjorocob@forum.dlang.org

There are plenty of links and resources:
https://d-apt.sourceforge.io/

https://devdocs.io/d/

I believe almost everything is ready, someone just should bring it all together and put the up2date links on official web-site in “Offline documentation” page

Have a nice day D-community!

Devdocs of Dlang Phobos library to ePub/Mobi/AZW3/PDF will be a dream come true.