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- From: James Petts <pettsj@visigoth.demon.co.uk>
- Subject: Re: TeX Documentation
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- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 07:07:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug12.204018.934@seas.smu.edu> Ted Pedersen,
- pedersen@seas.smu.edu writes:
- >We have TeX on our system here but we don't have the documentation
- available.
- >As I am a new TeX user I would really like to have some of that
- available. I
- >would like to be able to download the current TeX docuementation without
- having
- >to download all of TeX as well. Does anyone know a site that has the
-
- >documentation in a seperate file that I could download? Thanks much ,
- Ted
-
- The Aston archive (tex.ac.uk) has a directory .doc immediately below the
- anonymous ftp login directory. (Note that this is a VMS server, and you
- have to use the "cd [.doc]" notation) Aston is one of the largest
- archives of TeX material in the world, and will probably have virtually
- all the freely-available docs. Note, however, that "The TeXBOOK",
- although source is readily available, is copyrighted, and should *NOT* be
- TeXed. Other good sources (commercial) for documentation are:
-
- Tex for The Impatient, Abrahams et. al.
- A Beginners Book of TeX, Serould & Levy
- Tex for Beginners, Snow
- Tex by Topic, Eijkhout (Hello, Victor!)
- TeX by Example, Borde, and of course
- The TeXBOOK, Knuth
-
- and several others. I would recommend Seroul and Levy as a first point of
- contact.
-
- James
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