Google Books

[wm]

I've been asked if my book "Constraint Programming Languages" could be
uploaded somewhere. I found it on Google Books, but they only seem to
have excerpts of it:
http://books.google.com/books?id=Tu8mAAAAMAAJ&q=Constraint+Programming+Languages&dq=Constraint+Programming+Languages&ei=6-2MSfr6H5HGlQSL6cXIBQ&pgis=1
Since this book was published long before the invention of PDF, I have
no way to upload it anywhere. Not sure what to do next. Google seems
to be willing to scan in books, but I can't find any information on
how to get them to do that for my book. If anyone has any ideas, let
me know.

[Tom]

Wm, 2 questions

1. what format is the book in? Maybe there's an easy way to convert.

2. has copyright reverted to you?

BTW, I really liked your talk last night. I was quite pleased that the
core language only has 6 operators ... it seems similar to smalltalk
in the sense that if there's anything that is not quite right for my
task, I can tweak it.

[wm]

I am pretty sure copyright has reverted to me. But the big problem is
that the only copy I have of the book is ... a copy of the book. I
don't have an electronic copy. I wrote the book using Troff (I even
wrote my own macro package to create the index, because there wasn't
anything to do that at the time), but the figures were created
separately when the book was pasted up. As I said before, I think the
only way to create an electronic version would be to scan in the
book.

Google Books appears to have scanned it, but only for searching (they
will only show you small parts of it, which they call "snippet
view"). I couldn't figure out how to get them to make the whole book
available (which they call "full view"). I've sent them an email;
I'll see if I get a response.

By the way, I misstated last night -- there are actually 7 reserved
characters, not 6. They are
{ } ' # . " `

In my defense, I actually only needed 6 -- I could have reused ` (back
tick) instead of # for the preprocessor, since ` currently is used
only inside of strings.

--wm