vid,

FAR can make CHMs pretty quickly from HTML files. I guess you should give it a try.

http://www.helpware.net/

Good luck.

Evil. =)

I'd like to report 2 errors in the PREPROCESSOR chapter of the Tajga Tutorial. I bet i can do it here..
http://www.decard.net/?body=tajga&chapter=preproc

*In 2.2. Line Break

I think there should a comma ( , ) at the end of the first preprocessored line.

*In 5.4. Operator # (symbol concatenation)

I think the first line of the source code should be : macro debug b

OK, These are not big mistakes
If I'm wrong please tell me...

thanks a lot, they'll be fixed in next version (lot of updates are needed for preprocessor tutorial)

thanks to you for the tutorial =)
I think there are also errors in codes in
6.3. Directive forward
and 6.4. Directive reverse
You'll see it by youself, I won't paste it in the forum..

ok, thx again, i'll see

I discovered it today. Thanks vid for the tutorial about preprocessing.

thimis: don't forget that this thing is ANCIENT, many new features are not described. This only describes "macro basics", not (newer) advanced stuff

Oh no i don't, i'm also consulting fasm's programmer's manual and forum, but still it's helpful stuff

well vid's tutorial was the only one I had ever understood...lol.To bad he didnt update anymore...

Yeah, vid's tutorial was good. Too bad not updated anymore.

BTW... where are decard, JohnFound and scientica? Lots of missing FASMers.

new generation as appear.

...gone...

Nah, they all triple faulted, but they'll IRET one day.

Hi everybody,

this is my first post on this Board ... so I take my change to greet everyone!

I wanted to announce that I've republished Vid's "TAJGA FASM Tutorial" on GitHub, as part of a project I'm curating:

https://github.com/tajmone/purebasic-archives/tree/master/asm/fasm/tutorials#tajga-fasm-tutorial

To preview it in HTML, visit this link (GitHub show only raw html sources):

https://cdn.rawgit.com/tajmone/purebasic-archives/f12e7d3/asm/fasm/tutorials/tajga-fasm-tutorial.html

(previeew link changed)

I've first converted the original tutorial from html to Markdown, then to html5 using pandoc and a custom template -- markdowm source filess are available at the link, so it can be converted to any other format supported by pandoc (ePub, Docx, Latex, and many others).

The tutorial is now styled with CSS3, and I've taken liberty to polish the English text, apply source code highlighting via Highlight.js and some other minor aesthetic improvements — all things that seemed in line with the author intentions and desires.

I've found Vid's tutorial to be really good, and benefited from reading it, so I thought of sharing it with a fresh and revamped look.

Best regards,

Tristano

Great job, Tristano! Appreciate it! despite some errors or typos here and there, it is pretty well styled

p.s. you have garbage output in the end of html preview. pls fix it

Hi @zhak,

thanks for pointing out the issue! I've looked into it, and the problem is with the preview server (some conflict with Highlight.js JavaScript) --- the actual html doc on GitHub is fine, no garbage there, it's just the preview.


So there isn't much I can do about it except use another preview service. So, now I've changed all preview links in the project, pointing to:

https://cdn.rawgit.com/tajmone/purebasic-archives/f12e7d3/asm/fasm/tutorials/tajga-fasm-tutorial.html

The only disadvantage of using rawigt is that it caches permanently any link to it, so I have to insert commit version in URL --- which means that if the tutorial is update the previews will still be as in that commit, unless I change all links...

By the way, I've tried to contact Vid via email (the one that is in the tutorial) but the email account is no longer active. I've also sent him a private message through this Board, maybe that will get me through to him. I wanted to inform him about the republication of the article, and also I wanted to check if his FASM PREPROCESSOR GUIDE is also for unrestriced use, like the tutorial.

I've converted it to markdown and am cleaning it up right now, but I am not 100% sure if the unrestrcited permission found in FASM TUTORIAL also applies to the PREPROCESSOR GUIDE. I've seen on this thread that the two are often mentioned as both being "the tutorial", and that when a CHM version of the tutorial was created it also included the PREPR.GUIDE with it, and Vid approved it.

What you say, is it ok to republish also the PREPROCESSOR GUIDE?

(EDITED:)

PS: I've managed to get trhough to Vid, and he confirmed me that the PREPROCESSOR GUIDE is in the public domain ! So ... it's coming soon.

I've also republished Vid's "FASM Preprocessor Guide":

GitHub sources (html and markdown):

https://github.com/tajmone/purebasic-archives/tree/master/asm/fasm/tutorials

Link HTML Preview:

https://cdn.rawgit.com/tajmone/purebasic-archives/1351562/asm/fasm/tutorials/fasm-preprocessor-guide.html