Hi,
After a few days working in do what the tutorials say mode, I now want to
understand TeX from a programmer's mindset. I have not been able just by
practise to work out what the syntactic rules of TeX are, and I am hoping
that there is a sensible guide to this somewhere. However, searches
On Feb 25, 2010, at 9:39 PM, James Fisher wrote:
Hi,
After a few days working in do what the tutorials say mode, I now want to
understand TeX from a programmer's mindset. I have not been able just by
practise to work out what the syntactic rules of TeX are, and I am hoping
that
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
but there's an absolutely wonderful book which you can download for
free, TeX by topic, http://eijkhout.net/texbytopic/texbytopic.html
Personally, I find it more accessible than the TeXbook.
Also see
Wonderful! Those were good recommendations; I shall work through them.
Maybe I will buy the TeXbook eventually; however, I've just splashed out on
the METAFONTbook, so I'll give it a while.
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz
thomas.schm...@uni-bonn.de wrote:
On Feb 25, 2010,
On Thu, Feb 25 2010, James Fisher wrote:
Obviously I don't expect answers to all these here, but can someone point me
to somewhere on the 'net that could answer them? The only other
possibilities I can see are buying an expensive copy of the TeXbook, etc.
Hello James,
Look for a second-hand
