On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 09:17:16 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 12:19:56AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
>> On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 11:24:15 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>>> On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 11:24:14AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
>>>> Hi Paul,
>>>>
>>>> So this in an improved "noqq" relative to qqz.2020.03.17a.
>>>> It presents anchors to Appendix E in framed boxes.
>>>>
>>>> To display essential quizzes inline, I added additional macros to be
>>>> used in the form of:
>>>>
>>>> \EQuickQuiz{
>>>> quiz part
>>>> }\EQuickQuizAnswer{
>>>> answer part
>>>> }\EQuickQuizEnd
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> To improve the looks of consecutive quizzes, I further added macros
>>>> to be used for sequence of Quick Quizzes in the form of:
>>>>
>>>> \QuickQuizSeries{%
>>>> \QuickQuizB{
>>>> quiz part 1
>>>> }\QuickQuizAnswerB{
>>>> answer part 1
>>>> }\QuickQuizEndB
>>>> %
>>>> \QuickQuizM{
>>>> quiz part 2
>>>> }\QuickQuizAnswerM{
>>>> answer part 2
>>>> }\QuickQuizEndM
>>>> %
>>>> \QuickQuizE{
>>>> quiz part 3
>>>> }\QuickQuizAnswerE{
>>>> answer part 3
>>>> }\QuickQuizEndE
>>>> } % end of \QuickQuizSeries
>>>>
>>>> As a PoC, I applied schemes above to count/count.tex.
>>>> Does this amount of changes in .tex files look acceptable to you?
>>>>
>>>> If you think they are acceptable, I'll do the changes in other consecutive
>>>> quick quizzes.
>>>>
>>>> Futher tuning of noqq's look can be done by tweaking qqz.sty. I think
>>>> "noqq" looks OK, though.
>>>>
>>>> Any feedback is welcome!
>>>
>>> These are now on branch qqz.2020.03.22a, which is on top of the earlier
>>> qqz.2020.03.17a.
>>>
>>> I do like the comma-separated list of quick-quiz IDs for the -noqq
>>> variant, and marking a few of the quizzes as "essential" makes sense.
>>>
>>> I believe that the churn should be fine in this case. This does after
>>> all at least partially address a long-standing complaint from a small
>>> but noisy group of people. ;-)
>>>
>>> Should the "hb" target also put boxes around the quick quizzes?
>>> (I freely confess to having lost track of what most of the targets do!)
>>
>> Prompted by this question, I was looking into the -hb build.
>> It turned out that the change made in commit 648af1774e3a ("Stop using
>> modified book.cls") I submitted back in April 2018 broke the -hb build
>> in that pdflatex generates PDF having page size of normal letterpaper.
>>
>> It looks like the letterpaperhb option needs to be in the modified
>> book.cls file.
>> As there was no complaint regarding this regression, I guess nobody
>> cares -hb build.
>
> The only time I might have used it was when creating the hardbound
> version of the first edition.
>
>> And I'm wondering how the -hb build is supposed to work.
>>
>> Do you choose paper of 10.75in x 8.25in in printing -hb PDF?
>> Or do you use normal letterpaper and cut edges by 0.25in afterwords?
>
> I will know (hopefully) in a few months, once I have the remaining
> scalability results regenerated. It might well be different this time,
> depending on what formatting options are available from whichever online
> printing service.
Ah, I see.
>
> So I might be asking for your assistance at that point, in the all too
> likely event that I cannot figure it out on my own. ;-)
So, I'll see what would be a proper way to add a customized paper size.
As for the addition of Quick Quiz annotation, one of your recent updates
conflicts with my working branch.
So please wait a while for another "[RFC NOT PULL]".
Thanks, Akira
>
>
> Thanx, Paul
>
>>>> Thanks, Akira
>>>> --
>>>> The following changes since commit 01dcc70d3f66a1224ba63dc50bbe8370d3711c1b:
>>>>
>>>> qqz.sty: Add background color to Quiz part of Quick Quizzes (2020-03-17 20:24:09 +0900)
>>>>
>>>> are available in the Git repository at:
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/akiyks/perfbook.git tags/for-paul-2020.03.21a
>>>>
>>>> for you to fetch changes up to 77e161e26d37453b751429799fd3c8b49cf7e0c9:
>>>>
>>>> qqz.sty: Make noqq's Appendix E look same as that of 2cqq's (2020-03-21 10:53:16 +0900)
>>>>
>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> Akira Yokosawa (3):
>>>> Add experimental target 'noqq' (sans inline Quick Quizzes)
>>>> Permit consecutive QQs to appear in a framed box
>>>> qqz.sty: Make noqq's Appendix E look same as that of 2cqq's
>>>>
>>>> Makefile | 5 +-
>>>> count/count.tex | 270 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>>>> perfbook.tex | 3 +
>>>> qqz.sty | 73 ++++++++++++-
>>>> utilities/extractqqz.sh | 8 +-
>>>> 5 files changed, 231 insertions(+), 128 deletions(-)
