From: harryo@... (Harry Ohlsen)
Date: 2001-02-24T07:10:58+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11412] Re: Programming Ruby is now online

On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 23:13:42 +0900, Dave Thomas
<Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> wrote:

>... A pretty horrendous example is the following:
>
>\index{\protect\Ikey{<<\$ variables>>}@\texttt{\$} variables!ZZZZZ@\emph{English names}}

Yep, that's pretty horrible.

>However... we might be able to use TeX's Makeindex to postprocess this 
>for us. I'll look in to this sometime next week.

Brilliant!

>Thanks for the idea.

Well, thank YOU for going to the trouble to provide such a fantastic
resource to the Ruby community.  I think the availability of this book
on-line (particularly on people's own computers) will go a long way to
increasing the use of Ruby.