krobt@mom.uucp (Robert Klotz) (04/05/91)
hi, i have heard much said about the importance of the printing date of the TeX Book. i ordered said book from my local book merchant and received a 1984 printing. i remember from an earlier posting in this newsgroup that there was a printing in jan. of 1990. i returned my 1984 printing to the book store, and they contacted the publisher who said that the only differences between printings was the correction of spelling errors. does anyone know, is this correct?? in order to understand the TeX of today, do i need a book from this decade? ...robert -- -------------------------------------------- return mail via | what if there were no ...!uokmax.(ecn.uoknor.edu|uucp)!mom!krobt | hypothetical situations?
xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Xiaofei Wang) (04/05/91)
In article <47.27FB5F4E@mom.uucp> krobt@mom.uucp (Robert Klotz) writes:
* hi,
*
i have heard much said about the importance of the printing date of the TeX
Book. i ordered said book from my local book merchant and received a 1984
printing. i remember from an earlier posting in this newsgroup that there was
a printing in jan. of 1990. i returned my 1984 printing to the book store, and
they contacted the publisher who said that the only differences between
printings was the correction of spelling errors. does anyone know, is this
correct?? in order to understand the TeX of today, do i need a book from this
decade?
According to Karl's ``The TeX for the impatient'':
``Be sure to get the 17th printing (1990) or later, the
earlier printings don't cover the features of new TeX.''
Karl was referring soft cover book.
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xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu / rutgers!ub!xiaofei / v118raqa@ubvms.bitnetmj@dfv.rwth-aachen.de (Martin Junius) (04/08/91)
xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Xiaofei Wang) writes: >According to Karl's ``The TeX for the impatient'': >``Be sure to get the 17th printing (1990) or later, the >earlier printings don't cover the features of new TeX.'' Today I looked for the TeX book at one of our local book stores, they were carrying the 10th printing (june 1990) of the hard cover version. This printing does cover the new features of TeX 3.x (I lookep for `\language' in the index). Is there a more recent printing of the hard cover book? Any relation between hard cover and soft cover printing number? What about the METAFONT book? Martin -- _____ _____ | |___ | Martin Junius FIDO: 2:242/6.1 2:242/6.0 | | | | | | Republikplatz 3 DOMAIN: mj@dfv.rwth-aachen.de |_|_|_|_____| D-5100 Aachen Tel. (Voice) 0241-86931
hofbauer@csri.toronto.edu (John Hofbauer) (04/09/91)
>> ``Be sure to get the 17th printing (1990) or later, the >> earlier printings don't cover the features of new TeX.'' > > Today I looked for the TeX book at one of our local book stores, > they were carrying the 10th printing (june 1990) of the hard > cover version. This printing does cover the new features of TeX > 3.x (I lookep for `\language' in the index). 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.
dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) (04/09/91)
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 -- Don Hosek | To retrieve files from ymir via the mailserver, dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu | send a message to mailserv@ymir.claremont.edu Quixote Digital Typography | with a line saying send [DIRECTORY]FILENAME 714-625-0147 | where DIRECTORY is the FTP directory (sans ---------------------------+ "anonymous") and FILENAME is the filename, e.g. "send [tex]00readme.txt". There is a list of files in each directory under the name 00files.txt. Binary files are not available by this technique.
mj@dfv.rwth-aachen.de (Martin Junius) (04/12/91)
hofbauer@csri.toronto.edu (John Hofbauer) writes: >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. Get from `tex3.dif' from ymir.claremont.edu, this is a short article about the new features of TeX 3.x. Martin -- _____ _____ | |___ | Martin Junius FIDO: 2:242/6.1 2:242/6.0 | | | | | | Republikplatz 3 DOMAIN: mj@dfv.rwth-aachen.de |_|_|_|_____| D-5100 Aachen Tel. (Voice) 0241-86931