[antlr-interest] "Language design patterns" book available in beta

[Mark Volkmann]

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Dennis Brothers <brothers at bros.com> wrote:
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> On Jun 3, 2009, at 8:05 PM, Terence Parr wrote:
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>> On Jun 3, 2009, at 5:03 PM, Dennis Brothers wrote:
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>>> Your publisher's email beat you to the punch by a few hours - I pre-
>>> ordered the book and bought the beta download before you posted to
>>> the
>>> list.  Reading it now on my Kindle.
>>
>> wow!  Howz the kindle ebook version look?
>> Ter
>
> Looks good, so far - I haven't hit any diagrams or tables yet (I'm
> barely into it - been a busy day - a not inconsiderable part of it
> working with ANTLR).  Those are often problematic in technical books
> on the Kindle.

I've read a few Pragmatic Programmer books on the Kindle. Dave Thomas
has done a wonderful job with handling tables and code examples!
Conversion from PDF to mobi often doesn't work well, but Dave
implemented a custom conversion that produces really good results. If
you select a code example, the Kindle rotates the code 90 degrees and
zooms in to fill the screen with the code. Very nice!

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R. Mark Volkmann
Object Computing, Inc.