Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!gatech!mcnc!rti!sas!bts From: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: aghast at the "TeXBook" index! Message-ID: <1031@sas.UUCP> Date: 5 May 89 16:38:48 GMT References: <10523@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Reply-To: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger) Organization: SAS Institute Inc, Cary NC Lines: 23 In article <10523@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> woolstar@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (John D Woolverton) writes: | |Realizing the unsuitability of the index, I proceded to |read through the book again and index the places where |commands were explaned ``the best''. I haven't entirely |finished the book, but I have a rather large list of |references on the common instructions (usually ones with |less than 2 danger signs.) I keep a copy at the back |of my TeX book. | |If anyone is interested in this list, or would like to |add to it, I'll pass it around. | | woolstar@csvax.caltech.edu Please, please, post this. Should also be sent to TeXhax, methinks, and perhaps to TUGBoat. Although it could cause offense since there are lots of Knuth-worshipers about in those parts. -- -- Brian, the Man from Babble-on. ...!mcnc!rti!sas!bts -- "Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of" -- THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS