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From: xiaofei@ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU
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Subject: Re:  The Books
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Date: 21 Feb 91 23:29:13 GMT
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I saw someone asked info of Latest TeX related books and someone
suggestted to post the info. I called Addison-Wesley's distributor
at Reading, MA [1-800-447-2226] and found the follwoing information. [I
was told by the representative that the following are all the lastest.]
 
Postscript Language Reference Manual 1990 0-201-18127-4 $27.95
Postscript Language Tutorial and Cookbook 1985 0-201-10179-3 $18.22
Metafont Book 1986 0-201-13444-6 $21.50
TeX for the Impatient 1990 0-201-51375-7 $22.46
LaTeX Book 1986 0-201-15790-X $30.25
TeX Book 1984 0-201-13448-9 $30.25
 
For TeX Book ``Be sure to get 17th printing or later (Jan. 1990) or
later; the earlier printings don't cover the new features of TeX. ''
quoted from ``TeX for the Impatient''.
 
As someone pointed before ``0'' means ``English'' and ``201'' means
Addison Wesley. I don't know what the rest numbers mean. I don't why
the LaTeX book has an ``X'' instead of a number.
 
I think different editions have different ISBN number but different
printings have the same ISBN number. Please correct me if I am wrong.