From: Daniel Martin <martin@...>
Date: 2006-08-06T15:03:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Cookbook

"John Gabriele" <jmg3000@gmail.com> writes:

> 1. Whoa! The source code snippets are colorized! The graphics
> (including the occasional screenshot) are in color too! And on Ubuntu
> using Evince, the text is much more readable and clear than I'd
> expected (I'd previously been using xpdf). I will definitely
> reconsider buying your pdf versions.

One thing I don't like is that the colorizer they use seems to screw
up when coloring XML - take a look at the sample chapter from "Data
Crunching", for example.  It can't handle tag names that contain
dashes, apparently.

> 3. The source code font looks nice -- like Bitstream Vera Sans Mono,
> which I see a lot of :) And clickable "download source" links -- *yow*
> that's nice.

That being said, the font is nice and readable in paper too (I've got
my "Best of Ruby Quiz" right here).  Too bad the clickable source
links just don't seem to work in the paper editions...