Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 09:55:22 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@cs.technion.ac.il> To: Mike Allison <mallison@konnections.com> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Ruslan Shevchenko <Ruslan@Shevchenko.kiev.ua>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: teTeX, latex, Lyx Books Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95-heb-2.07.971223095224.4849B-100000@csd> In-Reply-To: <349F1668.380@konnections.com>
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On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Mike Allison wrote: > The TeXBook is good for understanding about TeX sorta like the Boeing > 767 owners manual would be good for pilots. Sometimes the forest is > lost for the trees..... Haven't read the 767's pilot's manual, but aircraft manuals in general are surprisingly readable and useful. > > Not to knock the book, nor the author, you just need a couple of decades > to work everything out.... If you know the basics, you can actually learn to fly a certain aircraft after reading for about an hour, at most... I wouldn't try it, but it's very unlike learning a complex software package. > > -Mike > > Greg Lehey wrote: > > > > > > > > The one I (still sometimes) use is "TeX for the impatient", by Paul > > Abrahams. I still don't think it's the perfect book on TeX, but it'll > > save you the hair-tearing frustration engendered bythe TeXbook. > > > > Greg > Nadav
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