On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 07:19:04AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> 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]".
Or just send me the pull request and tell me which commit it is against.
Then let me sort out the merge-conflict breakage. I do have significant
practice with this sort of task. ;-)
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(-)
