LaTeX feature requests

[Kwpolska]

1. The Latin Modern (and the original Computer Modern) fonts have a very ugly monospace font. Use \usepackage{DejaVuSansMono}, alternatively \usepackage{beramono}* if DVSM does not exist; if none work you need to install the DejaVuSansMono (or dejavu) package.
2. Please install the upquote package, as lines 7 and 8 suggest to have stuff in look better. Even if you have it, please also revise quotes (both " and ') in your code; for example the Hello World uses fancy Unicode quotes and does not run under any Python!
3. I hope you will work on the “final” version of the book in LaTeX itself and not in Markdown (which is a very unpythony choice anyways). I can offer some LaTeX advice if needed.

* some people suggest \usepackage[scaled]{beramono}

[rpicard]

Thanks for the feedback.

I haven't played much with fonts yet, so I appreciate the feedback. Same goes with quote stuff.

I probably won't move to a LaTeX only workflow; I think it would serve as a barrier to entry to people reading the source (myself included). I get what you're saying about Markdown being unpythonic, but it was the only choice with the editors I used to draft the content. I haven't been able to find a nice RST based editor.

I'm going to mark this for milestone 1.0 to make sure I cover this before the final release.

[rpicard]

I'm totally open to hearing opinions in favor of switching to LaTeX though!

[Kwpolska]

I did not want you to go LaTeX-only now, just in the very last phase, in v1.0, in order to tweak things.

PS. in order to convince you to use a better font: 0* and O in LMM cannot be distinguished if you do not know what it was meant to say, and then O is closer to a rectangle than a 0. (just like in courier new.)

* zero, oh, oh, zero.

[rpicard]

I see what you're saying. That's definitely an option.

With regards to fonts, you don't have to convince me! I'm all about clear and attractive typography. I intend to make this a very well set book. :)

[Kwpolska]

well, you might as well get your hands on a copy of Hoefler Text (included with OS X) or Garamond (not quite), use XeLaTeX (to have “system”/ttf,otf,…/non-LaTeX fonts) and use the desired font in the book.