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From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: TeXBook 3.0
Message-ID: <1990Oct14.024309.8657@maths.tcd.ie>
Date: 14 Oct 90 02:43:09 GMT
References: <9010080451.AA09100@june.cs.washington.edu>
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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In digest <9010080451.AA09100@june.cs.washington.edu> TeXhax@cs.washington.edu writes:

>Well, I see that the new version of the TeXBook is now shipping.
>Being somewhat low on funds, I am not real anxious to buy it unless
>I must.  Is there any freely available summary of the differences
>between the old and new editions/printings?

At a quick glance, the differences appear minimal.
The page numbers in the Table of Contents are identical.
The new primitive \language is dealt with
in a single paragraph (with double danger sign)
at the end of Appendix H.
I haven't spotted any other differences.

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Timothy Murphy  

e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie