Clear, thanks Il giorno sab 23 mag 2020 alle ore 09:15 Michael Van Canneyt via lazarus < [email protected]> ha scritto:
> > > On Sat, 23 May 2020, Salvatore Coppola via lazarus wrote: > > > Goodmorning people, > > some of us are waiting in presale for the Lazarus Handbook. I've read > from > > Detlef that will be printed soon. I've seen on Blaisepascal site that > > will'be distributed both paper and pdf. Btw there are about 1600 pages > and > > many are analytic index so, for actual knowledgew of peoples at nowdays, > > analytics index is useless (specially if we have th pdf), so the proposal > > for the Editor (Blaisepascal) is, if we are in time, strip from the the > > handbook this pages, the handbook will remain excellent as well and a > tree > > will thank. What do you thinks > > The previews you got till now were test versions. In particular the index > was > auto-generated which of course resulted in an unusable large index. > > We realized the book was to big, so we have recently done some efforts to > reduce the paper usage: > - Reduce use of different fonts, use 10 pt instead of 11pt. > - Remove borders around images. > - The index will be hand-crafted to a more reasonable size. > This reduces the amount of pages drastically, so the final book > will definitely not be 1600 pages. > > The work is not done yet, so we don't know the actual outcome, but based on > some reworked chapters, we suspect it will be more like 900 to 1000 pages. > > Michael. > -- > _______________________________________________ > lazarus mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus >
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