eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout) (10/09/90)
TeXhax@cs.washington.edu writes: >Well, I see that the new version of the TeXBook is now shipping. >Being somewhat low on funds, I am not real anxious to buy it unless >I must. Is there any freely available summary of the differences >between the old and new editions/printings? In tugboat the list of errata and changes is published quite regularly. I have seen the changes wrt TeX3 in a recent issue. > David Victor.
tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) (10/14/90)
In digest <9010080451.AA09100@june.cs.washington.edu> TeXhax@cs.washington.edu writes: >Well, I see that the new version of the TeXBook is now shipping. >Being somewhat low on funds, I am not real anxious to buy it unless >I must. Is there any freely available summary of the differences >between the old and new editions/printings? At a quick glance, the differences appear minimal. The page numbers in the Table of Contents are identical. The new primitive \language is dealt with in a single paragraph (with double danger sign) at the end of Appendix H. I haven't spotted any other differences. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie