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Linus Torvalds in ascii art easy ascii4/11/2024 Anyone, using practically any computer in the world, can view and edit plain ASCII text files! Also, I was hosting the book on my own personal web page, with very limited hard drive space, and file size was an important issue. The rationale behind ASCII formatting was universal readability, and small file size. Take for instance this "ASCII art" circuit schematic: Believe it or not, there's a surprising amount of illustration that may be done using nothing but monospaced font and the characters found on a keyboard. That's right: plain vanilla text, with not a single graphic image to be found, except for "ASCII art" illustrations and graphs. Here, I will describe how the project began, where it has gone, where it is now, and hopefully where it is going with regard to markup.Īt first, the entire book was written in plain-ASCII text format. There is a history of markup languages and formats used in the creation and presentation of this book series that readers may find interesting (or at least amusing!). History of markup languages used in "Lessons In Electric Circuits" book project If you are not familiar with what a markup language is, refer to the second-to-the-last section of this page before reading anything else. You may learn more about the SubML markup language in the last section of this page. If you wish to make LARGE contributions to the project (multiple chapters, or translations of the English text into other languages), I would recommend that you learn to write your documents(s) using the SubML markup language, so that I do not have to re-type large portions of your work. The reason for this is because I must perform some rudimentary conversions of your text into the markup language used for this book project, and this is easier to do if the text you send me is in a more primitive form. If you use a word processing program to write, please export your work in plain text (.txt) format. Please, please do not send me HTML files created by web page software such as FrontPage or Netscape Composer! Also, do not send me content in any word processor format (i.e. When submitting content for inclusion into the "official" distribution at the preferred formats are plain text or hand-coded HTML. Lessons In Electric Circuits - Document markup format
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