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impatient Free edition of the book "TeX for the Impatient"

Subdirectories of this one

NameDateDescription
fr/ 2008-05-20

Files in this directory

NameDateSize Description
Makefile 2003-09-09 356 bytes download
README 2007-05-20 1 Kbyte download Shown below
backm.tex 2003-07-29 3 Kbyte download
book.pdf 2003-09-09 1387 Kbyte download
book.tex 2003-08-06 869 bytes download
capsule.tex 2003-07-29 58 Kbyte download
concepts.tex 2003-08-06 153 Kbyte download
config.tex 1990-08-10 0 bytes download
copyrght.tex 2003-09-09 1 Kbyte download
eplain.tex 2003-07-29 34 Kbyte download
errata.future 2003-09-16 10 Kbyte download
errors.tex 2003-07-29 12 Kbyte download
examples.tex 2003-07-29 2 Kbyte download
fdl.tex 2003-08-07 21 Kbyte download
fonts.tex 2003-07-29 6 Kbyte download
frontm.tex 2003-07-29 1 Kbyte download
genops.tex 2003-08-06 85 Kbyte download
index.tex 2003-07-29 931 bytes download
index1.icn 2003-07-29 2 Kbyte download
index2.icn 2003-07-29 7 Kbyte download
macros.tex 2003-08-07 60 Kbyte download
math.tex 2003-07-29 65 Kbyte download
modes.tex 2003-08-06 65 Kbyte download
pages.tex 2003-08-06 39 Kbyte download
paras.tex 2003-08-06 72 Kbyte download
preface.tex 2003-09-09 7 Kbyte download
read1st.tex 2003-07-29 1 Kbyte download
tips.tex 2003-07-29 37 Kbyte download
usebook.tex 2003-07-03 9 Kbyte download
usermacs.tex 2003-08-06 37 Kbyte download
usingtex.tex 2003-07-29 29 Kbyte download
xmptext.tex 2003-07-29 18 Kbyte download

Contents of the README file

This is the README file for version 1.0 of the free edition of the book
TeX for the Impatient, released under the GNU Free Documentation License.
(This README file itself is public domain.)

Primary distribution point:
       ftp://tug.org/tex/impatient
It is also available from http://mirror.ctan.org/info/impatient/.

Information about the free edition is included at the end of the preface
and on the copyright page.

We'd be interested in hearing about any projects undertaken with this
material.  See errata.future for some relatively small ideas for
enhancements.

TeX for the Impatient is also a GNU project, and the development
sources, contact information, and other project details are available at
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/teximpatient.

TeX for the Impatient has been (independently!) translated into a wikibook:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/TeX_for_the_Impatient


Some random thoughts for people thinking of working with the source:

- You may want to translate the source into some more standard format; we
used many homegrown macros to make typing and markup easier.

- You may want to redo the index creation to use makeindex or some
other standard program, instead of our homegrown Icon programs (included
in the distribution, for what it's worth).  Until the index can be
easily regenerated, the page breaks can't change without the index
becoming useless.

- Printing the GFDL required many kludges, a true Eplain-compatible
version is needed (which in turn would require using the current eplain
to print the book).


Happy (and quick) TeXing!

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