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Article #6344Re: yet another new TeX user aghast at the "TeXBook" !!!!!!
From: Brian T. Schellenberger
Date: Tue, 09 May 1989 17:35
Date: Tue, 09 May 1989 17:35
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In article <8787@csli.Stanford.EDU> poser@csli.stanford.edu (Bill Poser) writes: |One other thing that a reference manual for TeX, and probably more |elementary books, ought to include is a description of TeX as a |programming language. A programming language is of course what TeX is, |yet nowhere, as far as I can tell, is there a straightforward description |of its syntax. When you start writing macros you pretty much have to guess. What about chapters 24-26? -- -- Brian, the Man from Babble-on. ...!mcnc!rti!sas!bts -- "Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of" -- THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!haven!uvaarpa!mcnc!rti!sas!bts From: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: yet another new TeX user aghast at the "TeXBook" !!!!!! Message-ID: <1037@sas.UUCP> Date: 9 May 89 17:35:51 GMT References: <1481@hub.ucsb.edu> <1006@sas.UUCP> <1393@uw-entropy.ms.washington.edu> <11461@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <1027@sas.UUCP> <8787@csli.Stanford.EDU> Reply-To: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger) Organization: SAS Institute Inc, Cary NC Lines: 13