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It depends entirely on the publisher. For my book, 80 characters was the line max. It was difficult for a few JavaScript things, but it just meant breaking one
by bphogan 15y ago
It depends entirely on the publisher.
For my book, 80 characters was the line max. It was difficult for a few JavaScript things, but it just meant breaking one-liners apart into two liners, or breaking long script includes appropriately.
- adamrmcd 15y agoHey, I have your book! "The Pragmatic Programmers: HTML5 and CSS3" right? :) You were lucky because you consistently had the entire page width. For mine, because the book's formatting was pre-defined, the column width was variable depending on content type. I could have anywhere between 20 to 65 chars for code. The only place I had control was in the screenshots of code in Vim, but even Production decided to scale those down to make it fit.
- bphogan 15y agoThat's mine. I can't imagine writing for another publisher after hearing about all the awful things that happen to people's books. I'm very lucky. Sounds like you had a really rough time. :(
- adamrmcd 15y agoHonestly, it was a great learning experience and I'm glad to have been given the opportunity. After two books (the first one on Perl last year) I toyed with the idea of turning this into a career, but financial reality set in :)
- tekromancr 15y agoOh, yea! You were at code camp! I didn't make it this year, but you did some pretty good talks at the one last year. I won an e-book copy of that book, then my nook broke.