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I end all of my newsletter intros with "hit reply - I read every email". And I actually mean it! This week, Stephan emailed me, looking for the print detail of Jace's physical copy of The Swift Programming Language book I mentioned in issue 94 (peterfriese.dev/newsletter/...).

This conversation led to two great things 👇 1) Stephan shared a glimpse of a 300 page book on Swift generative art he's printing for his vacation (mind-blowing work).

2) I freshly generated a new PDF for Swift 6.4 (and fixed some issues with the rendering along the way)

If you ever have feedback, questions, or cool projects to share, just hit reply. I read and answer every single one. Oh, and here is the link to the updated PDF: go.peterfriese.dev/swift-book?...

Tiny feedback: the rendering seems to be indenting where none is needed. See page 8 at the end of section 2. The last paragraph on page 7 overflows to page 8 where it is mysteriously indented.

Do you mean the wide margin? That's actually on purpose - the book uses Tufte-style wide margins. See page 10 for an example how this is used.

Yes. The wide margin looked odd because there was nothing in it. I see where we have experiments etc in the margin, that the margin has utility. On page 8 though, it would feel more natural (at least to me) if the margin continued as on page 7. If it’s working as desired however, that’s great 😀

Maybe I should provide a version without a wide margin, or keep it on the right.

If you did that, could the entries that are currently in the margins be formatted as some variety of heading? For me, that would make best use of space and be easier to read, though this is your project, so you should do what you think best. It is great nonetheless.