Draft Version 2 Released

Have just released Draft 2 to the group for comments. Looking forward to some more feedback – it can be a lonely place – book writing.

For those who are interested, I’m using LaTeX to author the book. This is my first foray into this, frankly amazing, tool. In essence, you write a source file in plain text, then run it through LaTeX which converts it into a beautiful PDF document. At least that’s the idea – I’m still getting to grips with some of it. The thing I love about LaTeX is that, like programing code, you can place internal comments into the manuscript to remind yourself of things you intend to do later or might forget. LaTeX does other cool stuff like automatically build a table of contents, indexes and bibliographies – and I’ve only scratched the surface. Can’t wait to learn more…