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- From: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: Modern TeX. Michael Vulis
- Date: 8 Jan 93 13:45:51
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- In-reply-to: dlv@bwalk.dm.com's message of Thu, 07 Jan 93 11:24:23 EST
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- In article <c4L1wB5w165w@bwalk.dm.com> dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dimitri Vulis) writes:
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- "R.A.Reese" <R.A.Reese@seq.hull.ac.uk> writes:
- > The list of contents looks interesting. Has anyone seen/reviewed a copy yet?
- "DON'T BUY THIS BOOK". :)
-
- Photocopy it?
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- Seriously, doesn't every table of contents look interesting?
- Not to mention backside blurb, which I know from experience
- is not written by the author. I have quite a collection of
- TeX books on my shelf (does anyone know A Guide To LaTeX
- by Helmut Kopka and Patrick Daly? just out) and from their
- backcover blurb each and every one is the ultimate TeX book.
-
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- Victor Eijkhout .............................. ``There are also a few bugs,
- Department of Computer Science ......... though not as many as I've come to
- University of Tennessee .................. expect in new Windows products''
- Knoxville TN 37919 ................................(from a software review)
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