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From: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: yet another new TeX user aghast at the "TeXBook" !!!!!!
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Date: 9 May 89 17:35:51 GMT
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In article <8787@csli.Stanford.EDU> poser@csli.stanford.edu (Bill Poser) writes:
|One other thing that a reference manual for TeX, and probably more
|elementary books, ought to include is a description of TeX as a
|programming language. A programming language is of course what TeX is,
|yet nowhere, as far as I can tell, is there a straightforward description
|of its syntax. When you start writing macros you pretty much have to guess.

What about chapters 24-26?
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