From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2002-12-04T02:06:20+09:00
Subject: Re: exception types

On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 10:39, Robert McGovern wrote:
>  >>I'm reading the one comes with Ruby distribution, not even on the
>  > internet, it doesn't have any figures :(
>  >
> > Is there any reason for such constrain?
> 
> Maybe they'd like you to get the book ;)
> 
> It might be a publisher constraint? (ie yes you can make the book free 
> but you have to limit it in some way that the print version is still 
> appealing)

Nothing so subtle... :)

The problem is that the figures where done using PSTricks in LaTeX, and
I haven't found a utility that would let me extract and embed them
simply into my HTML. latex2html does something similar (but not with
PSTricks diagrams), but its fairly complex. Having spent two weeks
off-charge converting the book from LaTeX to HTML, I really couldn't
justify to my family the extra weeks to do the figures.

However, all the stuff used to produce the book and the HTML are
available online, so if someone feels strongly enough, I'm sure the rest
of the community would appreciate it.


Cheers


Dave