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In article <01GINGMDZYTC8WWS4A@VzdmzA.ZDV.Uni-Mainz.DE> KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.KPH.Uni-Mainz.de (J%org Knappen) writes:

>the local computing center plans a course `TeX for scholars'...

How about just cutting & pasting "The TeXbook" so that its material
appears in the order that Knuth wants us to read it in, instead of
letting the text use (unlabelled!) gotos all the time?

Have you noticed that DEK hasn't offered $2.56 (or any sum) for the
first discovery of each error in "The TeXbook" ?  No wonder!

I'm writing as a flustered layman, a flustered logician,
a flustered mathematician, a flustered physicist,
and a flustered Fortran, Pascal, and C programmer,
who tries to read Knuth's books, but fails to see any
sense in the structure of any of them.

It looks almost as though DEK did two things:

1.  Spited his wife, Jill, for asking that he not use footnotes.
	Instead, he scattered disjointed notes throughout the text.

2.  Read Misner, Thorne, & Wheeler's "Gravitation", pondered their
	two-track pedagogical arrangement, and thought:
	``I can do worse than this!''  So he did.

Geoffrey Tobin