Le 02/01/2011 22:51, [email protected] a écrit :
> Le 02/01/2011 21:18, Philipp Stephani a écrit :
>> 1. TeX: The TeXbook was written for users of plain TeX, or for those that 
>> want to understand every detail. For TeX programming knowledge, TeX by Topic 
>> is more than sufficient, and very well and succinctly written. Even in this 
>> book, you don't have to read every detail; for starting, the chapters 1–4, 
>> 6–8, 10–13, 32, 33, 36 should suffice.
>> 2. eTeX: The manual is not that long, and many sections can be skipped. I 
>> think the most important sections are 3.3, 3.5, 3.7, 3.12, 5.
>> 3. pdfTeX: Again, most parts of the manual are not totally relevant for 
>> programming. Sections 7.3, 7.4, 7.15, 7.16, 7.21 seem to be the most 
>> important at first sight.
>> 4. Lua: Lots of good material is available, most notably Roberto 
>> Ierusalimschy's book Programming in Lua and the Lua reference.
>> 5. XeTeX: should not be required, but the unofficial reference is sometimes 
>> a bit more detailed than the LuaTeX manual.
>> 6. After that, you should be able to read the LuaTeX manual without problems.
>
> -The program you propose is maybe a good way to learn deeply LuaTeX but 
> you found this program because you have already read all the stuff about 
> TeX and successors but what about newcommers ? They don't know what to 
> read and they don't know what to read first.

That's what mailing list, newsgroups, faq, and search engines are for. Now they
can find Philipp's message in the archives and/or ask another experienced user
by whatever mean, and get a similar list.

> Moreover, the program you 
> propose is rather personnal (you can read this, you can skip that) and 
> it is not sure that it would be convenient for anyone.

For what it's worth, I fully agree with Philipp's list, so it's probably not
that personal.

Manuel.

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