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From: Mert Cramer
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:34

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From article <1k3044INNfld@cc.tut.fi>, by s106275@lehtori.cc.tut.fi (Anssi Saari):
> In <Jan.25.21.14.32.1993.26111@gandalf.rutgers.edu> deatz@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Gregory H Deatz) writes:
> 
>>Anybody know where I can find a good quick on-line or off-line manual for someone who has virtually NO experience with it, but would find it extremely convenient to learn?
> 
> The TeXbook, by the author Donald E. Knuth.
> 
> Anssi

Unless you have a strong streak of masochism the TeXbook is not for beginniers.
Much better books are:
TeX for the Impatient by Paul Abrahams -- Addison-Wesley 1990 or
A Beginner's Book of TeX by Raymond Seroul and Silvio Levy - -Springer-Verlag
 1991.

 Mert Cramer

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