[sclug] Something to read on holiday

[Jon Masters]

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Derek M Jones wrote:

>>I'm not sure how much time I'll be able to find to read it, or how much
>>won't go over my head, but it's the sort of thing I'm interested in reading.

> The pdf is searchable and I am experimenting with various
> cross referencing options

Thanks for the book, I'll take a look. Did you have an alterior
motivation in putting this online? (are you looking for a publisher at
the moment?).

In reference to searcheability, the folks at http://www.eprg.org/ have
some useful research and papers that might be interesting.

> gcc is one of the few compilers that is close to being C99 conforming.
> As I recall it was never C90 conforming (I think there were a few tests
> in the validation suites it failed).

Bah. You guys and your knowledge of C standards annoy me. I never got
around to *really* going through them - though I do have the POSIX spec
here for bedtime reading. FWIW, you're probably right.

> I know there are some latex users on this list.
> Suggestions on how to keep marginpars from appearing on a
> different page to the text they should be in the margin of will
> be most welcome.  The latex is automatically generated

An example?

Jon.
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