Re: [Haskell-cafe] Bathroom reading

On 8/14/07, Dougal Stanton wrote:

On 14/08/07, Brent Yorgey wrote:

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Clearly, we need to actually put together such a book! I'm imagining something where you have two mostly blank facing pages, with the code by itself in the middle of the right page; then the next 2-4 pages devoted to a short discussion of the code, how it works, related issues and techniques, and a list of references. All featuring beautiful typography and fantastic writing, of course. =)

Oh indeed! This wasn't *completely* idle chatter on my part. I used to work in a print shop and we did a lot of work for art and architecture students who would do this kind of thing all the time. Fantastic little notebook-style gifts of images and blank pages and elegant typography. It's just a shame so many of them were terrible at spelling! :-P

It shouldn't be too difficult to use LaTeX to this end. Once a document class has been hammered out you can offer a range of different booklets! The "Evolution of a Haskell Programmer" series would be a good place to start. Bring it to your next job interview to whip out when someone points to that bit on your CV and says, "what's that?".

Any skilled TeXers in the house?

D.

Well, it wasn't completely idle chatter on my part, either! =) After spending the past year writing (and typesetting) a mathematics book in my spare time, I would consider myself an intermediate to advanced user of LaTeX, although I know much less about TeX itself than I would like (although I do intend to learn). Unfortunately, what with applying to grad school and other things, it probably wouldn't be wise for me to spearhead such a project at the moment, although I'd be excited about contributing. But I very well might pick it up at a later date if no one decides to run with it right now. -Brent