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From: dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: the TeX Book
Message-ID: <1991Apr9.031459.1@euler.claremont.edu>
Date: 9 Apr 91 10:14:59 GMT
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In article <1991Apr8.210349.20823@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, hofbauer@csri.toronto.edu (John Hofbauer) writes:
>>> ``Be sure to get the 17th printing (1990) or later, the 
>>> earlier printings don't cover the features of new TeX.''

> I have a sixth printing (March 1986) of the TeX book. Can anyone
> briefly (or not) summarize what has been added in the 17th printing.
> In other words, what is new in TeX 3.x.

The changes in TeX are not terribly earth-shattering (nor are
those in MF). For those of you who have older versions of the
books and just want a quick summary of what's been updated, get
the file tex3.dif from ymir.claremont.edu in
[anonymous.tex.sources.tex3_1]. My sig has details on obtaining
ymir files via mailserv.

-dh

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