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Article #2493Re: Buy a manual! (Re: MetaFont for Beginners.)
From: Robin Fairbairns
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 08:18
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 08:18
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In article <DAMIAN.CUGLEY.92Sep9110443@pierrot.comlab>, Damian.Cugley@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Damian Cugley) writes: |> <10665@spark.ed.ac.uk> iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski): |> |> I'd be glad to RTBMFBook, but some colleague of mine |> appears to have withdrawn the only copy from the library. |> |> So buy a copy! There is no point trying to make serious use of TeX or |> METAFONT without your own copies of the manuals. |> |> Just a suggestion. Damian. And a good one. They're not _that_ expensive. Howwever, I would nevertheless claim that a `beginners' guide' is necessary. I read the manual for some time before even starting to try with mf, and still found I needed to learn several things before I could make a go of it. -- Robin (dump Brian Kay) Fairbairns rf@cl.cam.ac.uk U of Cambridge Computer Lab, Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QG, UK [Finally back in work - what a relief!]
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!warwick!pavo.csi.cam.ac.uk!cam-cl!rf From: rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Buy a manual! (Re: MetaFont for Beginners.) Message-ID: <1992Sep10.081846.23819@infodev.cam.ac.uk> Date: 10 Sep 92 08:18:46 GMT References: <1992Sep6.070903.20725@lugb.latrobe.edu.au> <10665@spark.ed.ac.uk> <DAMIAN.CUGLEY.92Sep9110443@pierrot.comlab> Sender: news@infodev.cam.ac.uk (USENET news) Reply-To: rf@cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) Organization: U of Cambridge, England Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: ely.cl.cam.ac.uk