From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.107.15.214 with SMTP id 83mr5512484iop.16.1447896286126; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 17:24:46 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.182.250.169 with SMTP id zd9mr75974obc.1.1447896286099; Wed, 18 Nov 2015 17:24:46 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!i2no5055227igv.0!news-out.google.com!f6ni6778igq.0!nntp.google.com!i2no4904057igv.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 17:24:45 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <2a413f76-f141-48fa-b6b8-76e95d768c13@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=63.205.77.254; posting-account=8N1lGQoAAABLFFn2RbHi01iHoMwWCyiL NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.205.77.254 References: <8ec278d8-e97e-47e7-b09b-1e89f08411f3@googlegroups.com> <876110cjrt.fsf@nightsong.com> <2a413f76-f141-48fa-b6b8-76e95d768c13@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <4ae27877-e6da-4473-9166-f6cfd082e4bd@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Ada e-books From: Steve Johnson Injection-Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 01:24:46 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:28448 Date: 2015-11-18T17:24:45-08:00 List-Id: On Wednesday, November 18, 2015 at 12:29:43 AM UTC-8, Serge Robyns wrote: > > I'll try either from PDF or through the tools from RTF .... You'll likely get better results from RTF than from PDF. That's been my ex= perience in the past although I haven't tried it on the ARM specifically. = It's even simpler to get the epub version from Ada-Europe as Dirk suggests.= My opinion after a brief look at it is that it's very usable. Nitpicks w= ould include lack of margins, which can be annoying and distracting on some= e-readers but which can be easily changed by converting from epub to epub = (default of 0.5pt margins) in Calibre. The table of contents is a bit ugly= and could also be changed or deleted if it bothers you.=20 As previously posted two Cambridge Press books on Ada are available as eboo= ks from ebooks.com, Kobo, Amazon, etc. Amazon is a bit less expensive if y= ou can deal with azw format. Calibre can convert that to epub even if you = don't have a Kindle with better than acceptable results. I'll echo a previ= ous recommendation of Programming in Ada 2012 by John Barnes as a very reas= onable place to start. -Steve