Just bought #EdMastery by @mwlucas as ebook only because I cannot currently buy a hardcopy direct from the author
@saper Thanks! Hope it helps.
Direct sales of print books is a no-go for me right now, sorry. 😟
@mwlucas I fully understand that! Will consider selling my soul to Amazon to get your piece!
Or let me know when you have a roadshow in Europe - EuroBSDCon, maybe?
@saper No #EuroBSDCon for me this year.
#edmastery is distributed globally through Ingram's so any bookstore can order print for you. Even your corner mom & pop place. That's why I bought my own ISBNs, to enable exactly this.
@saper Odd. Most of the world offers Ingram's to everyone. I bet they could special order if you walked in, but that would be too much like work.
@mwlucas let's try :)
by the way
even with very creative editing of the Appendix A (extracted from EPUB), I can't arrive at 963 bytes!
Currently I have 975 and can't seem to reduce it more
@saper Huh. I bet there's whitespace somewhere.
Or, might ed count inodes? Hmmm...
I removed trailing spaces (EPUB has them), converted — to -- as seen in your text;
Added two spaces in front of every second verse. What else?
wc -c and ed seem to agree. There are UTF-8 quotes.
@saper Ah, I used plain ASCII. That's probably it.
Also, I formatted it to look better in the epub & print.
@mwlucas got it:
> ed jabberwocky
963
No trailing spaces, unicode converted to ` " --
Two spaces before every second verse.
I don't even know why am I doing this
@saper You're doing it because a REAL computer nerd doesn't rest until the stupid problem is solved.
I have used a backtick instead of a tick:
--- jabberwocky.txt 2018-06-17 02:10:34.000000000 +0200
+++ jabberwocky 2018-06-17 01:17:36.326432000 +0200
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
+`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
@mwlucas my small local store offers only "CSS Mastery" when searching on their website (and that's obviously some large catalog from a content provider).
But large network bookstores have it on offer, with few day delivery option.