Re: [PATCH -perfbook] summary: Misc. fixes/tweaks

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On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 12:32:14AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 21:38:26 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 12:35:50PM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> [...]
> > 
> > I queued and pushed your fixes above, thank you!
> > 
> > And I will be doing another rc this weekend in order to give us both
> > some time for proofreading.  I intend to revisit the changes that I
> > made, and I of course welcome any and all additional bug reports and
> > fixes.
> 
> There can be conflicts, but you are good at resolving them.
> Expect a couple of patches soon.

Very good, looking forward to them!

> >> A much natural option would be to add a couple of paragraphs in front
> >> of the figure so that at least a few sentences make the following
> >> page in 1c builds.
> > 
> > Your concern is the large quantities of vertical whitespace on page
> > 569 of perfbook-1c.pdf?
> 
> Well, they don't look that ugly.  There are much wider gaps elsewhere
> near section epigraphs.
> 
> My main concern is the "H" option, which is considered as a last resort.
> It will likely bite you when you add/remove some text around it.

Ah, I see.  Otherwise the figure ends up on a page by itself.

> >                          I could imagine expanding on the changes
> > in tooling from 2003 to 2006 that Linus alluded to.  I could also
> > imagine filling in on my attempts to get the book going from late
> > 2004 to 2006.
> 
> That would eliminate the adhoc code for 1c layouts.
> Float objects near the end of a document/chapter are sometimes
> quite tricky.

For this edition, it will be safer for me to do "make -1c" after each
change to summary.tex to check that figure than to work out how to expand
that section while still having it read well.  But I added comments
to remind myself of this for the third edition.

							Thanx, Paul

>         Thanks, Akira
> > 
> > Or am I missing your point?
> > 
> > 							Thanx, Paul
> > 
> >>         Thanks, Akira
> >>
> >>>  
> >>>  And this book is also for everyone else who would like to add low-level
> >>>  concurrency to their skillset.
> >>>



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