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- From: dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu
- Subject: Re: Bug in TeXBook
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.144506.1@hmcvax.claremont.edu>
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- Organization: Quixote Digital Typography
- References: <193@steiny.com> <1992Dec14.094755.2742@irfu.se>
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- Date: 14 Dec 92 14:45:06 PST
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- In article <1992Dec14.094755.2742@irfu.se>, bt@irfu.se (Bo Thide') writes:
- > In article <193@steiny.com> steiny@steiny.com (Don Steiny) writes:
-
- >> Does anyone know why exercise 8.7 in the TeXBook is repeated on
- >>pages 48 and 49?
-
- Probably a typo which was never fixed in the paperback printing
- plates. Barbara Beeton will likely let you know if you have money
- coming for spotting this.
-
- >> The book is not indexed too well either. For instance there is
- >>no index entry for "margins" something that it seems would be a normal
- >>thing that document preparers would be interested in.
-
- You likely have an older printing. By 1990, it had been included.
- On the other hand my 1990 paperback has the duplicate exercise
- while:
-
- > Not in my edition (Sixth Printing, 1986), where exercise 8.7 is printed only
- > on p 49.
-
- > On the other hand, Bo Derek is not on p 293 (as my Index says)
-
- Sure she is: THINK!
-
- > and the page heading on p 216 is different from that of the rest of the
- > pages in Chapter 20... Only God (DEK) knows why.
-
- It's a joke. The source code for the TeXbook is filled with
- them.
-
- -dh
-