Andy Pennell's books.

[Derek_Stewart]

Hi

Like Xora, I have 2 copies of the QDOS Companion, one perfect, the other is nearly loose leaf.

So I intend to scan that one with a Protek Opticbook scanner. This allows scanning upto edge of each page edge.

Should not take too long.

I have OCRed Assrmbley Languagre Programming on QL, just need to format the text file in Libre Office.

[Dave]

As a mac user, I'm quite intrigued by the notion of making a new impression of the book, with Andy's input, updates and corrections.

[Derek_Stewart]

Hi,

I have scanned and OCRed the book, I am working throught the ASCII OCR file in LibreOffice Writer formatting the pages as per the book, any diagrams are uaually constructed as tables.

I will submit the finished file here for proof reading.

[swensont]

Derek,

Glad you are using LibreOffice. From that PDF's can be easily created. I'm on OpenOffice guy, but Libre is close enough.

Tim

[Derek_Stewart]

Hi,

I mainly use Open Source software these days, LibreOffice is pre-install in Linux Mint 20.03, so I use that.

I use gscan2pdf to split any double scanned pages, which actually unpaper which gui on top of it.

The OCR software is ocrmypdf, a really silly name for an excellent application that will produce an ASCII OCR text file in the same structure spacing as the PDF file or produce s text layer in the PDF file.

I used to use Windows, Adobe Acrobat and MS Office but I would have pay a licence fee for the software to produce the same result as the as the Open Source Software.

I do not pirate software, despite what QL Today said.

[Derek_Stewart]

Hi,

Just an update, I have done up to Chaper 5, formatted as per the book to roughly A5.

I have made some of the tables that extend over thenpage in the book to be all on one page.

When completed I aim to pass the a suitable proof reader that can compare the figitial book to the physical book.

Once has been done, maybe there are dome additions or corrections to be submitted, I am not dure how to organise this, would Github project be suitable for this?

[NormanDunbar]

I would say, Derek, that a GitHub project would be good. There's a Sinclair QL account, which I'm and admin for, I think, that could be used if necessary. I'm pretty sure Rich is the owner.

Cheers,
Norm.

[Derek_Stewart]

Hi Norman,

I have Github signon, I will see if it works and upload the complete book once I am finished.

[Derek_Stewart]

Hi

Progress update, just starting to format Chapter 8, only 2 chapters and appdencies to complete.

[Cristian]

Nice progress Derek!