Status: copyediting (I'm in a holding pattern)
Pages excluding front and back matter: 425
Passing unittests: 5363 lines
Failing unittests: 841 lines

Andrei

Hello Andrei,

> Status: copyediting (I'm in a holding pattern)
> Pages excluding front and back matter: 425
> Passing unittests: 5363 lines
> Failing unittests: 841 lines

Yeaaaah! A book that has unittest! :)

(I really think that should be standard in CS books, and you might as well ship them in digital form as well.)

> Andrei
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On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:56:33 -0600, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> Status: copyediting (I'm in a holding pattern) Pages excluding front and
> back matter: 425 Passing unittests: 5363 lines
> Failing unittests: 841 lines
> 
> Andrei

Horrible process. Are they going to do the index, or do you have that joy?

Steve Teale wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:56:33 -0600, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 
>> Status: copyediting (I'm in a holding pattern) Pages excluding front and
>> back matter: 425 Passing unittests: 5363 lines
>> Failing unittests: 841 lines
>>
>> Andrei
> 
> Horrible process. Are they going to do the index, or do you have that joy?

"Near death" is more like it. But I hope the result was worth the fuss.

I'll do my own index. By choice!


Andrei

>> Horrible process. Are they going to do the index, or do you have that joy?
> 
> "Near death" is more like it. But I hope the result was worth the fuss.
> 
> I'll do my own index. By choice!
> 
> 
> Andrei

Glad to hear that choice, otherwise I suspect it would be useless. Who did you get as reviewers?

Steve

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Steve Teale wrote:
>> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:56:33 -0600, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>>> Status: copyediting (I'm in a holding pattern) Pages excluding front and
>>> back matter: 425 Passing unittests: 5363 lines
>>> Failing unittests: 841 lines
>>>
>>> Andrei
>>
>> Horrible process. Are they going to do the index, or do you have that joy?
> 
> "Near death" is more like it. But I hope the result was worth the fuss.
> 
> I'll do my own index. By choice!
> 
> 
> Andrei

I read once that Donald Knuth didn't like what his publisher &
type-setter were doing for one of his CS books so he decided to
do his own type-setting.  Also by choice.  The result, of course,
was TeX.

Justin

Justin Johansson wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Steve Teale wrote:
>>> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:56:33 -0600, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>
>>>> Status: copyediting (I'm in a holding pattern) Pages excluding front and
>>>> back matter: 425 Passing unittests: 5363 lines
>>>> Failing unittests: 841 lines
>>>>
>>>> Andrei
>>>
>>> Horrible process. Are they going to do the index, or do you have that joy?
>>
>> "Near death" is more like it. But I hope the result was worth the fuss.
>>
>> I'll do my own index. By choice!
>>
>>
>> Andrei
> 
> I read once that Donald Knuth didn't like what his publisher &
> type-setter were doing for one of his CS books so he decided to
> do his own type-setting.  Also by choice.  The result, of course,
> was TeX.
> 
> Justin

Much as I love my name being mentioned next to Knuth's, I doubt anything like TeX will come out of my decision :o). Anyhow, the making of TDPL was a very interesting experience. I hope one day to write an article about it.


Andrei

Hello Andrei,

> Justin Johansson wrote:
> 
>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> 
>>> Steve Teale wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:56:33 -0600, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Status: copyediting (I'm in a holding pattern) Pages excluding
>>>>> front
>>>>> and
>>>>> back matter: 425 Passing unittests: 5363 lines
>>>>> Failing unittests: 841 lines
>>>>> Andrei
>>>>> 
>>>> Horrible process. Are they going to do the index, or do you have
>>>> that joy?
>>>> 
>>> "Near death" is more like it. But I hope the result was worth the
>>> fuss.
>>> 
>>> I'll do my own index. By choice!
>>> 
>>> Andrei
>>> 
>> I read once that Donald Knuth didn't like what his publisher &
>> type-setter were doing for one of his CS books so he decided to do
>> his own type-setting.  Also by choice.  The result, of course, was
>> TeX.
>> 
>> Justin
>> 
> Much as I love my name being mentioned next to Knuth's, I doubt
> anything like TeX will come out of my decision :o). Anyhow, the making
> of TDPL was a very interesting experience. I hope one day to write an
> article about it.
> 
> Andrei
> 

Some kind of word/phrase selector tool would be interesting. Comparing the occurrence rate of phrases from your text to some relevant corpus and selecting based on that might make for a starting point...

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BCS wrote:
> Some kind of word/phrase selector tool would be interesting. Comparing the occurrence rate of phrases from your text to some relevant corpus and selecting based on that might make for a starting point...

I wonder what that would show. For one thing, I learned that "in vigor" is not nearly as frequent in English as I thought.

Andrei