[News] New AmigaOS 4.0 ROM Kernal Reference Manuals in the works! | ANN.lu |
Posted on 24-Apr-2002 16:18 GMT by P Ericson | 86 comments View flat View list |
In a recent interview with Hyperion Software, we're told that Olaf "Olsen" Barthel is working on new ROM Kernal Reference Manuals for AmigaOS 4.0! [The "RKRM" books are the official and prime development documentation/tutorial for AmigaOS developers] As some readers of Amiga Network News may already know, Mr Barthel has previously compiled the Amiga Developer's CD.
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Posted by Olaf Barthel on 25-Apr-2002 18:34 GMT | In reply to Comment 56 (Anonymous): > LaTeX2e? Good stuff! I'm intrigued though when you say you're
> having problems with getting the line breaks right. In what way
> are you having trouble?
Bloody long names such as BltMaskBitMapRastPort() which LaTeX2e
doesn't know how to break down into manageable units. While TeX
can hyphenate supercallifragilisticexpialidocious without breaking
a sweat, Amiga function names don't go down very well. Type changes
are a problem, too, especially in tables and lists. The lines become
too narrow to hyphenate or squeeze the glue to meet TeX's own standards.
> In my experience, it's best not to fight TeX on such matters.
> After all, you're using TeX to take away the problems of
> typsetting.
I know. If only TeX knew...
> On the other hand, line breaks in things like code listings are
> supremely important. Are you using the latest Listings
> environment? v1.0 was released just a few weeks ago if you hadn't
> noticed and may include some much needed functionality you're
> currently missing.
I had little luck compiling a working set of LaTeX2e macro files.
I even went so far as to download the latest LaTeX2e distribution
from CTAN, but it didn't help much :(
> Seeing as you're coding the doc in TeX, how about releasing the
> DVI files? Discussion about formats becomes moot then.
I am not "coding" the documentation in TeX ;) The original author
of the RKM Devs (Marc Ricci) did that. Consequently, you couldn't
rebuild the manual without using his custom macro files (which
were built on top of plain TeX). Releasing the DVI files along with
the documentation in other formats might be a good idea. But I'm not
so sure if it will be released in this form. |
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