From: Huw Collingbourne <huw@...>
Date: 2006-06-17T22:27:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Free eBook: The Little Book of Ruby

No, I do not cover regular expressions in The Little Book. There will be 
more tutorials online later looking in more depth at specific subjects.

As for the choice of Comic Sans. That was absolutely deliberate as this 
font is close to the ones used in some older books on Smalltalk. The 
modern tradition is to use fixed fonts such as Courier for code samples 
(this is the font I have used myself in the many Java, Delphi and C# 
columns which I've written for computing magazines over the years). It's 
all a matter of taste, I guess, but I have to say that I've just got a 
bit fed up of the 'formal' (i.e. dull) look of Courier type fonts for 
code samples and wanted to get back to a slightly  more frivolous font 
that evokes the old Smalltalk books.

best wishes
Huw

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