Re Language Reference Guide

[roger]

David,

Re your language reference guide, it would be very good if you could implement some sort of 'Print All' button for the whole of the guide.

I am afraid that I am of the old school who finds flipping through hardcopy much easier than using online manuals. It is also easier to record notes, code snippets etc.

Thanks in advance.

Roger

[David John Barker]

Hi Roger

I can't implement a "Print All" but I have added a link at the top right of the page (it was originally just at the bottom of the page) which reformats the page for printing. Alternatively, save the page as HTML and you can load and edit in something like WORD.

[majenko]

Hey. I have been working on a small PHP/LaTeX script to grab the individual pages of the language reference and compile them into a single PDF specially for "old school" [ ] people like yourself. I'd like to post it on here for you, but unfortunately it's greater than the 256 KiB limit (even zipped), so here's a link:

http://scratchpad.majenko.co.uk/FirewingLanguageReference.pdf

[roger]

Hi Matt,

Superb, many thanks for that.

I shall now be ready for the release of Firewing - hopefully in the not too distant future.

Found my first single board computer the other day, a Z80 programmed in binary with toggle switches!!!

"Old School" indeed.

Regards

Roger

[majenko]

Nice... I've always wanted to put together a z80 based system - got all the chips here (z80, flash for ROM, RAM chips, handfuls of 74 series chips etc), just never got round to doing it.

Specifically for printing, here is an A5 booklet version of the manual: http://scratchpad.majenko.co.uk/FirewingLanguageReference-booklet.pdf. This is arranged as 2-up, black & white and the pages re-ordered for booklet binding - just print it double sided (I do odd first, then just flip it top-tail and print even pages), and stitch it in the middle with nice long staples. Instant, handy Firewing book, on just 24 sheets of A4.

[Jerry Messina]

It seems that some chars like "{" and "}" don't make it through the conversion and into the PDF.

Took me a bit to see why it was complaining about my array initializers...

[majenko]

It doesn't? I'll have to take a look at that... I should have spotted that during my proof-reads, but then I'm blind

[majenko]

Ok, that looks like it's fixed now. Thanks for finding that one

[Jerry Messina]

Thank YOU for doing the conversion.

Sometimes it's just easier having a PDF I can scan through.

[bitfogav]

> Sometimes it's just easier having a PDF I can scan through.

Thats true, I find it easier to use the search function in the pdf viewer to find what you need..