From: Richard Dale <Richard_Dale@...>
Date: 2005-02-15T06:34:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Printing why's (poignant) guide to ruby

why the lucky stiff wrote:

> Raphael Bauduin wrote:
> 
>> Richard Dale wrote:
>>
>>> But it would be great to be able to print the guide out as a PDF. Is
>>> there a
>>> version with markup available, so it can translated to a PDF to make it
>>> easier to print?
>>>
>> http://www.htmldoc.org/
> 
> Nice.  Well, it's not a great conversion.  And I turned off the Table of
> Contents, as it was paginating the sidebars.  At any rate, the sidebars
> are flowed into the main text.
> 
> But, hey, it's a PDF:
> 
> <http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/3073/why.s.poignant.guide-0.5.pdf>
> 
> _why
Thanks _why - just what I wanted! I look forward to trying it out teaching a
beginner programmer. I've downloaded it and it looks great - I've just
started my friend with looking at 'Thinking About [TLC] Logo' (from 1984)
as an intro anyway. Hmm, he says: 'they went on too many christian summer
camps' his first comment - I guess hackers all had beards in those days..

-- Richard