[mercury-users] issue with the tutorial book.pdf

[Paul Bone]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 05:09:38PM +1000, Ian MacLarty wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Paul Bone <pbone at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 06:21:14PM +1000, Julien Fischer wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On Sat, 26 Jun 2010, Jean-Marc Vanel wrote:
> >>
> >>> I installed release of the day 2010-06-23, on Ubuntu 10.4, and it does work.
> >>>
> >>> I have an issue with the tutorial book.pdf downloaded from the site.
> >>> Every - (minus) character in the PDF is not a true minus ASCII
> >>> character, as this shell command shows :
> >>>
> >>> echo  mercury-users-request | od -c
> >>> 0000000   m   e   r   c   u   r   y 342 210 222   u   s   e   r   s 342
> >>> 0000020 210 222   r   e   q   u   e   s   t  \n
> >>> 0000032
> >>>
> >>> This is annoying when one wants to paste code from the PDF. Also the "
> >>> (double quote) , and the _ (underline) are not correct.
> >>
> >> Yes, we are aware of this.  (If I can find time, I will add the tutorial
> >> examples to the samples directory.)
> >>
> >
> > I intend to check to see if we can generate a HTML version of the tutorial via
> > latex2html.  This may be more suitable as an online reference and allow people
> > to copy-and-paste code examples from it.
> >
> 
> I propose using the verbatim environment for program listings.  This
> will make it much clearer what needs to be typed in to get the program
> to work and should enable copy and pasting directly from the pdf.
> Would there be any objections to me making that change?
> 

I support this change.

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