Re: FYI, Second Edition Release Candidate 1 now available

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On Fri, Jan 01, 2021 at 10:30:00AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> 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!

Thank you!  Posted to social media, and Happy New Year!

							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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