Springer have made a big move into electronic
book production.
Here is their web page
http://www.springer.com/librarians/e-content/ebooks?SGWID=0-40791-0-0-0
and they have over 51,000 already available
with over 7,000 a year in production.
With the move to things like the Kindle
Jane Sleightholme and I wondered what people thought
of the small 'page' size.
From a program language teaching and training point of view
something based on an A4 or letter page size
means that you can lay programs out relatively
easily. You don't have to use continuation lines
very often with this page size.
When targetting a conventional book page size
you now have to reformat programs for a
relatively short line length
to maintain correct program language syntax.
The Kindle and similar devices means a
very short line length.
What do people think about this?
Does it matter if the programs are
no longer syntactically correct due
to the short line length?
Cheers
Ian Chivers
Jane Sleigholme
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