From: Conrad Schneiker <schneik@...>
Date: 2001-02-08T08:53:01+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:10537] Re: Programming Ruby is now an Open Content Publication

Dave Thomas writes:

# Thanks to some wonderful flexibility on the part of Addison Wesley,
# Programming Ruby is now an Open Publication document. This means we
# can release the sources and derived content for general use.
# 
# I'm trying to work out how to handle updates to the LaTeX, but in
# the meantime the XML and HTML sources of the reference material are
# available for download at
# 
#    http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/downloads/refman.html

Hey, does everyone realize what a great development this is?

Besides the enormous convenience of instant local access and custom
searching, think of what this means for future Ruby IDEs and other
tools.

Please *profusely* thank Addison Wesley for all of us!!!!

(And of course, thankyou for pursuing this issue with AWL.)

# Dave (hoping someone's going to produce popup help for emacs by next
# week)

Sounds like a challenge to (g)vim folks. :-)

Conrad Schneiker
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