Martin Berggren <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 29, 2013, at 13:25 , Arthur Reutenauer wrote: > > >> As I said multiple times: I've downloaded the TeX book, and I am reading > >> it. > > > > That's illegal. Wherever you've downloaded it from, shouldn't have > > made it available. Unfortunately Addison-Wesley doesn't provide the > > option to buy an electronic version (that I know of), you have to buy > > the paper copy. > > Reading the .tex source of the TeX book should is legal.
sure. but if your purpose is understanding tex, reading knuth's sources is not a way i would recommend. (the texbook is quite hard going, in places, and reading code describing something difficult may be worse still. note that ymmv, but i struggled in the 80s having never used anything more complex than digital runoff.) i agree, it's a shame a-w (or whatever they're called now) can't bring themselves to offer an e-book version.
