Re: FYI, Second Edition Release Candidate 1 now available

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On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 12:36:01 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 01:43:36PM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
>> On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 20:04:09 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 08:21:58AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 10:59:33 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 08:13:46AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 08:44:30PM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Paul,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, 29 Dec 2020 21:37:28 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hello!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Release Candidate 1 of the Second Edition is now available, and I have
>>>>>>>> started a prototype blog entry: https://paulmck.livejournal.com/59935.html
>>>>>>>> Please let me know of any omissions or errors in this blog entry.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Wouldn't it be worth while mentioning the availability of the "nq" build
>>>>>>> targets?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Good point!  How about like this?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 	Those who find Quick Quizzes distracting will be happy to learn
>>>>>> 	that "make nq" relegates both the quizzes and their answers to
>>>>>> 	the end of each chapter, similiar to common practice in textbooks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Maybe I should also show what "make help" and "make help-full" print out.
>>>>>
>>>>> And I went ahead and did both, using the output of "make help-full" to
>>>>> motivate the mention of "make nq".
>>>>>
>>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>
>>>> A bit lengthy, but looks good to me!
>>>
>>> I could drop the output of "make help-full" and just call out "make nq"
>>> as one example from that list.  Would that be better?
>>
>> Or you could put a relevant part of the output of "make help-full" instead:
>>
>>     [...]
>>     Experimental targets:
>>       Full,              Abbr.
>>       perfbook-qq.pdf,   qq:   framed Quick Quizzes
>>       perfbook-nq.pdf,   nq:   no inline Quick Quizzes (chapterwise Answers)
>>     [...]
>>           ("1cqq", "1cnq", and so on disable 2-column mode.)
> 
> Good point, updated.  Further thoughts?

Looks nice!

        Thanks, Akira

> 
> 							Thanx, Paul
> 
>>>>>>> PS:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> My experiment on index annotations is progressing but slowly.
>>>>>>> Besides the hierarchical indexing, I'm attempting to make use of
>>>>>>> the "glossaries" or the "glossaries-extra" package to manage indexing
>>>>>>> of acronyms.
>>>>>>> Once it becomes stable enough, I'll submit an RFC pull request.
>>>>>>> That would be after the release of Second Edition.  
>>>>>
>>>>> And this sounds very good!
>>>>>
>>>>> 							Thanx, Paul
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>                                                                    I expect
>>>>>>>> to post it to my social media accounts in a few days.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> And thank you all for your interest in and contributions to perfbook!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 							Thanx, Paul
>>>>>>>>



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