On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Michiel Kamermans <[email protected]> wrote:
> (And ideally keeping it free, even if it ends up available in book form. I > personally found that the one truly annoying thing about the LaTeX companion > - I don't mind paying for a reference work after it turns out it is the > reference work I need, but what's the point of a free typesetting engine > when the documentation costs a non-trivial amount of money? It always seemed > to me the one real reason LaTeX is considered so inaccessible to the general > public) I don't mind paying for books I find useful, but I have found that The LaTeX Companion must be useful to people who do mind paying, as I have had to replace it several times after my copy went missing. I don't have a lock on my office door, so I've had other books disappear once, but TLC is the only one that needed replacement multiple times. I like Cory Doctorow's approach -- you can get his book for free and if you want to pay for it he suggests donating copies to schools and libraries. Maybe if more libraries had TLC I could keep it on my shelf. For works like TLC the ability to search for a specific topic gives digital versions an advantage over print. I have noticed that many people need help locating the appropriate section in TLC using contents and index, despite the obvious effort that went into those parts fo teh book. -- George N. White III <[email protected]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
