On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 02:49, Nick Sabalausky <a@a.a> wrote:
> "dennis luehring" <dl.soluz@gmx.net> wrote in message news:jeu3mf$94o$1@digitalmars.com...
>>> https://github.com/PhilippeSigaud/D-templates-tutorial/blob/master/dtemplates.pdf
>>
>> ...with acrobat reader...
>
> Eewww.  Do youself a favor and grab a copy of FoxIt Reader. Works just as well, but isn't an insane resource hog. Adobe == bloatware.

I don't use it normally, but wanted to test the pdf specifically with Reader 10.x, as someone signalled a pb with it. But the pb came only from a mistake I made on github.

Le 14/01/2012 19:26, Walter Bright a écrit :
> On 1/14/2012 12:36 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> I confess that it's a bit of a pet peeve of mine when people insist on
>> avoiding words like you and your. I completely disagree that it's a
>> problem.
>> And there are times where avoiding it can cause problems and make the
>> text
>> more awkward (though it is true that you can often avoid it fairly
>> easily if
>> you really want to).
>
> (though it is true that it can be avoided fairly easily)
>
> Fixed that for you. What advantage does the "you" version have, besides
> upping the word count?
>
>
>> But I know that there are plenty of technical writers who would agree
>> with
>> you.
>
> I cannot recall any professional technical book that used "you" (yes,
> I'm sure you can find an example!). It's like wearing jeans to a wedding.

« The linker will fluently and baroquely remind you of that in its native language, encrypted klingon »

Copied verbatim from a certain book I'm sure you know about ;) But I have too agrre, some you is good, too much of it isn't in a technical paper.

Le 14/01/2012 19:36, Walter Bright a écrit :
> Another issue is Kindle is black & white, so while the colored text does
> make it better, it should still be usable if rendered in black & white
> (which should be done anyway, as many people are color blind).

A good practice is to back up coloring with some other tools to convey information, like different font.

Conveying information solely by color is a bad practice. You noticed that it doesn't convert well to black and white, you'll also notice that you'll exclude, de facto, color blind people, who are actually frequent (more than most people think).