Rule 1 should be: Reproduce with most minimal setup.
99% you’ll already have found the bug.
1% for me was a font that couldn’t do a combination of letters in a row. life ft, just didn’t work and thats why it made mistakes in the PDF.
No way I could’ve ever known that if I wouldn’t have reproduced it down to the letter.
Just split code in half till you find what’s the exact part that goes wrong.
I'd argue that you can't effectively split something in half unless you first understand the system.
The book itself really is wonderful - the author is quite approachable and anything but dogmatic.
Rule 1 should be: Reproduce with most minimal setup.
99% you’ll already have found the bug.
1% for me was a font that couldn’t do a combination of letters in a row. life ft, just didn’t work and thats why it made mistakes in the PDF.
No way I could’ve ever known that if I wouldn’t have reproduced it down to the letter.
Just split code in half till you find what’s the exact part that goes wrong.