[sclug] Something to read on holiday

[Derek M Jones]

Jon,

>Thanks for the book, I'll take a look. Did you have an alterior
>motivation in putting this online?

Fame and fortune ;-)

> (are you looking for a publisher at
>the moment?).

I had a publishing contract with Addison-Wesley who decided
half way though copyediting that they did not want to publish it :-(


>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.

Those of you who have trouble falling asleep holding my heft tomb
might like to try pdf of just the current draft C Standard:
www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1124.pdf

Those into html might prefer: (plus DR 251 and handy
sentence numbers)
www.knosof.co.uk/cbook/cbc99.html.gz



>> 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?

See bottom of page 190 (or what be 190 if all pages were numbered).

derek

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