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Re: Andy Pennell's books.
Posted: Fri May 02, 2025 11:01 am
by pjw
Derek,
No good deed goes unpunished! Keep up the good work, and thank you for all youve done already!
Re: Andy Pennell's books.
Posted: Fri May 02, 2025 11:01 am
by Derek_Stewart
NormanDunbar wrote: Fri May 02, 2025 8:45 am
Derek,
The people who do almost all the hard work, never get thanked often enough. I know I've thanked you before for your PDFing, but I'll say it again anyway, thank you very much for all the work you do.
And funnily enough, I was looking for my Qdos companion only yesterday!
Cheers,
Norm.
Hi Norm,
Thanks for the comments.
Can look at my update to the Qdos Companion and let me kniw any updates or errors in the new version.
Re: Andy Pennell's books.
Posted: Fri May 02, 2025 11:38 am
by NormanDunbar
I will do Derek, no worries.
A couple of things I noticed, A1 in places is AJ and A5 is AS. I'll read it all though and see what I can find.
Cheers,
Norm.
Re: Andy Pennell's books.
Posted: Fri May 02, 2025 6:48 pm
by bwinkel67
Andrew Pennell is on that Facebook group, btw.
Re: Andy Pennell's books.
Posted: Fri May 02, 2025 10:38 pm
by Derek_Stewart
Hi
I have exchanged emails with Andy, to get permission to digitise his books.
I have had another look at the last version, which is on GitHub and found a few grammatic errors, I will get this corrected.
One point that was mentioned on the FaceAche QL Core group, was that the book is Typeset and my PDF is not Typeset. Does this matter?
Re: Andy Pennell's books.
Posted: Sat May 03, 2025 6:45 am
by NormanDunbar
Derek,
In a word, no.
Content is important, not how something looks. If it's readable then that's all that's required.
Cheers,
Norm.
Re: Andy Pennell's books.
Posted: Sat May 03, 2025 11:38 pm
by swensont
Derek,
I took a quick look at the Qdos Companion. You are using a monospace font instead of a proportional space font. Some prefer a proportional space font as it looks more modern than a monospace font. When I format a document, I do favor proportional space font and only use a monospace font for source code or ASCII diagrams. It's just a matter of personal preference.
Since you distribute the document as a .odt file, anyone can just change the font to something else and create their own version. Biggest thing is to create it as you want it. If others want it differently, they can do that too.
Tim
Re: Andy Pennell's books.
Posted: Sun May 04, 2025 7:13 am
by Derek_Stewart
swensont wrote: Sat May 03, 2025 11:38 pm
Derek,
I took a quick look at the Qdos Companion. You are using a monospace font instead of a proportional space font. Some prefer a proportional space font as it looks more modern than a monospace font. When I format a document, I do favor proportional space font and only use a monospace font for source code or ASCII diagrams. It's just a matter of personal preference.
Since you distribute the document as a .odt file, anyone can just change the font to something else and create their own version. Biggest thing is to create it as you want it. If others want it differently, they can do that too.
Tim
Hi Tim,
Thank you for the advice, I will amend the Libreoffice Style to proportional font.
I am in the process of checking the book again, and have found many errors in the comparison to the original.
I have the QDOS Companion on github, so once I remember how to use github, I will update the it there. To produce a sort of QL Document Project Library.
Re: Andy Pennell's books.
Posted: Sun May 04, 2025 7:30 am
by NormanDunbar
Hi Derek,
Derek_Stewart wrote:I have the QDOS Companion on github, so once I remember how to use github, I will update the it there. To produce a sort of QL Document Project Library.
I'm up to the end of chapter 5 with quite a number of fixes made to the ODT file. I've also done a number of search and replace throughout.
I have kept a note of the changes iv made plus any queries. I not at home today, out visiting, but I'll get my review finished and the updated files sent back to you.
You mentioned that you have it on github, is that your own or the SinclairQL one? If the latter, I can commit what I have if you wish?
Cheers,
Norm.
Re: Andy Pennell's books.
Posted: Sun May 04, 2025 1:11 pm
by XorA
For GitHub use then using fodt rather than binary odt might be a plan. Then it's easy to see the diffs in future.
This is super useful when decoding why a change was made.