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- From: rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: Buy a manual! (Re: MetaFont for Beginners.)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.081846.23819@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 08:18:46 GMT
- References: <1992Sep6.070903.20725@lugb.latrobe.edu.au> <10665@spark.ed.ac.uk> <DAMIAN.CUGLEY.92Sep9110443@pierrot.comlab>
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- In article <DAMIAN.CUGLEY.92Sep9110443@pierrot.comlab>,
- Damian.Cugley@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Damian Cugley) writes:
- |> <10665@spark.ed.ac.uk> iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski):
- |>
- |> I'd be glad to RTBMFBook, but some colleague of mine
- |> appears to have withdrawn the only copy from the library.
- |>
- |> So buy a copy! There is no point trying to make serious use of TeX or
- |> METAFONT without your own copies of the manuals.
- |>
- |> Just a suggestion. Damian.
-
- And a good one. They're not _that_ expensive. Howwever, I would
- nevertheless claim that a `beginners' guide' is necessary. I read the
- manual for some time before even starting to try with mf, and still
- found I needed to learn several things before I could make a go of it.
- --
- Robin (dump Brian Kay) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk
- U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK
- [Finally back in work - what a relief!]
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