[vox] [oualline@ftp.oualline.com: Re: Typesetting Vi IMproved - Vim]

[Peter Jay Salzman <p@MAPSdirac.org>]

hrm.

ok, this is only slightly less embarrasing than running a lugod meeting
with my fly open would be (which thankfully has never happened).

steve oualline must think i'm the biggest idiot alive.  i _swear_ the
fonts for his book really look like tex fonts!

oh well.  i never heard of quark; i assume it's a windows thingie.
guess i inadvertantly dissed latex with this email.  oof.

pete


----- Forwarded message from Stephen Oualline <oualline@ftp.oualline.com> -----

Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 20:02:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: Stephen Oualline <oualline@ftp.oualline.com>
To: Peter Jay Salzman <p@dirac.org>
Subject: Re: Typesetting Vi IMproved - Vim

Created in Microsoft Word and imported into Quark Express.


On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:

> Dear Steve,
>
> I'm a big fan of your Vim and Practical C books.  I'm currently writing
> a good on debugging, and would like like to ask you a question about
> typesetting your Vim book.  The book looks like it was typeset using
> latex, which is what I'm using.
>
> One of the things I like best about your book are the arrows that show,
> for example, the path that the cursor follows for various cursor
> movement commands.
>
> Using pstricks, I've been able to implement arrows too, but it requires
> visual markup -- painful trial and error.  And lord forbid I change the
> font size of something; everything needs to be redone by hand.
>
> for instance:
>
>    \begin{figure}[H]
>    \begin{pspicture}(0,0)(3,3)
>    \psset{unit=.4cm}
>
>    \Put{6} {void swapper(int *a, int *b)}
>    \Put{5} {\{}
>    \PPut{4}{int c = *a;}
>    \PPut{3}{*a = *b;}
>    \PPut{2}{*b = c;}
>    \PPut{1}{printf("swapped!\Backslash{n}");}
>    \Put{0} {\}}
>
>    \rput[l](15.0,4.0){next 3}
>    \MyBezier{7.0}{4.0} {22.0}{3.5} {20.0}{2.5} {12.5}{1.0}
>
>    \end{pspicture}
>    \label{fig:next3}
>    \caption{\Next}
>    \end{figure}
>
> PPut and MyBezier are my own macro commands that "tidies" things up.
> You can imagine what kind of mess this would be otherwise!  But still,
> MyBezier requires that I use trial and error to compute the curved
> arrow.
>
>
> How did you do this for your book?  Please tell me if you have a macro
> that does this very thing!  It would make life so much more pleasant
> if I had a way to automate this...
>
> Thanks!  Pete


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