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From: aceverj@accucx.cc.ruu.nl (Jaap Verhage)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: expensive TeX book
Message-ID: <638@accucx.cc.ruu.nl>
Date: 26 Aug 90 10:40:29 GMT
References: <8164@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <44773@cornell.UUCP>
Reply-To: aceverj@accucx.UUCP (Jaap Verhage)
Organization: Academic Computer Centre Utrecht, The Netherlands
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In article <44773@cornell.UUCP> murthy@algron.cs.cornell.edu (Chet Murthy) writes:
[...]
>I wonder if the right thing to do here isn't to just publish it
>electronically.  After all, TeX is such a wonderful free program,
>and there's so much free software for it, why not make other things
>that users contribute to, like proceedings of conferences, free.  I
>understand that books that people WRITE personally are different.  But
>the contributors don't get much out of this volume.
Completely agree. Wonderful idea.

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Regards, Jaap.

Jaap Verhage, Academic Computer Centre, State University at Utrecht, Holland.
aceverj@cc.ruu.nl     +<-*|*->+     I claim *every*thing and speak for myself