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From: gm@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Greg McGary)
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Subject: Re: TeX documentation
Keywords: TeX documentation
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Date: 16 Feb 89 20:35:45 GMT
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In article <28051@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> c60c-1dm@e260-1b.berkeley.edu (Adam Glass) writes:
>We are running TeX version 2.95 here.  Unfortunately there is no documentation
>online for TeX itself, or any of the macro packages.  Is there someplace
>that I can FTP this information from?

You should get a copy of Knuth's _The_TeXbook_ and/or Lamport's
_LaTeX_User's_Guide_and_Reference_Manual_.

There's not much in the way of on-line documentation that I know of,
although score.stanford.edu has the complete TeX source of both
_The_TeXbook_ and _The_METAFONTbook_ on-line for the sole purpose of
aiding the the aspiring TeX/METAFONT hacker in learning how the
typographic effects were achieved in the books.  (look in
<tex.doc>{mf,tex}man.tex)  i.e., You're not supposed to print them!
There shouldn't be too much incentive anyway, since you're not saving
that much $$ by laser-printing about 500 pages at roughly $.05/page
(including paper/toner, wear and tear on the machine...)  The books
only cost about $28, and you get the delightful drawings by Duane
Bibby, which you can't get by printing it yourself.

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