mdeck@sybil.cs.Buffalo.EDU (Mary Deck) (11/22/90)
What should be done with the TeX source for the TeXbook? We have a copy hanging around from a while back, and I remember something about "If you have this file, please delete it." If we're not supposed to have it, I'll see that it's removed, but if we are allowed to keep it (but not print it out, of course, since it's copyrighted), then we'll keep it for its tutorial value. Thanks..... .....Mary --- Mary M. Deck Student Assistant, User Services | Internet: mdeck@cs.buffalo.edu University Computing Services | uucp: rutgers!ub!mdeck SUNY at Buffalo | Bitnet: mdeck%cs.buffalo.edu@ubvms
teexdwu@ioe.lon.ac.uk (DOMINIK WUJASTYK) (11/25/90)
In article <47335@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> mdeck@sybil.cs.Buffalo.EDU (Mary Deck) writes: > >What should be done with the TeX source for the TeXbook? We have a >copy hanging around from a while back, and I remember something about >"If you have this file, please delete it." If we're not supposed to >have it, I'll see that it's removed, but if we are allowed to keep it >(but not print it out, of course, since it's copyrighted), then we'll >keep it for its tutorial value. Thanks..... You are perfectly within your rights to have the TeX sources of the TeXbook hanging around. That's why they are made available, so that we mortals can learn from them. But, as you say, it is an infringement of copyright to print them out. I'm curious about your memory of the phrase "If you have this file, please delete it." Certainly I have no memory of such a phrase in the TeXbook sources. Perhaps you are thinking of the puzzler at the beginning of plain.tex: % N.B.: A version number is defined at the very end of this file; % please change that number whenever the file is modified! % And don't modify the file under any circumstances. Frankly, anyone who thought compiling and printing the tex sources of the TeXbook was a cheap easy way of getting the text would be in for a surprise. Go buy the thing, and save yourself a nervous breakdown. (Remember, the person doing this would not have read the TeXbook already ... ) Dominik
gm@wsrcc.com (Greg McGary) (11/26/90)
mdeck@sybil.cs.Buffalo.EDU (Mary Deck) writes: >What should be done with the TeX source for the TeXbook? We have a >copy hanging around from a while back, and I remember something about >"If you have this file, please delete it." If we're not supposed to >have it, I'll see that it's removed, but if we are allowed to keep it >(but not print it out, of course, since it's copyrighted), then we'll >keep it for its tutorial value. Thanks..... I believe that "please delete" message concerned the PiCTeX manual, not the TeXbook. The TeXbook was consciously made available online precisely for the purpose that you wish to use it. -- Greg McGary gm@wsrcc.com -or- uunet!wsrcc!gm (703) 318-8698 10310 Main Street, #109, Fairfax, Virginia 22030
ken@csis.dit.csiro.au (Ken Yap) (11/27/90)
>I'm curious about your memory of the phrase "If you have this file, >please delete it." Certainly I have no memory of such a phrase in the >TeXbook sources. Perhaps you are thinking of the puzzler at the >beginning of plain.tex: I think this referred to the DVI file for PiCTeX that was released by accident.