Programming Book Format Changes on BookShare
- From: "Richard Dinger" <rrdinger@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Programming" <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:50:25 -0700
I recently downloaded the first programming book from BookShare since they
changed their format last Spring. The book is C# in a Nutshell and I am using
the xml version of the book in IE.
The code segments appear to be all messed up. As near as I can tell any
whitespace is collapsed into a single space. Since this includes newlines,
lines are jammed together into single lines as if the code were just normal
text.
For example the following short segment:
class sample
{ // sample class
string n; // Name
double x; // Size
...
Appears as:
class sample { // sample class string n; // Name double x; // Size ...
Next, I re-downloaded "The Python Cookbook", which I already have in the
original format from two years ago to check it for change. I found the code
run together just like the C# book and the html header structure has changed
significantly.
This new format makes reading and understanding the code in these books nearly
impossible.
Is anyone else on the list having this problem?
Richard
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