Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!thad From: thad@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: unix-pc.general Subject: Re: TeX (I've got it, but what is it?) Message-ID: <9453@cup.portal.com> Date: 26 Sep 88 01:09:24 GMT References: <474@kosman.UUCP> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 29 XPortal-User-Id: 1.1001.2826 In re: TeX documentation, ``THE'' documentation consists of a 5-volume set from Addison-Wesley accompanied by some supplementary books also from A-W. Specifically: [A] The TeXbook [B] TeX: The Program (source code, etc.) [C] The METAFONTbook [D] METAFONT: The Program (source, etc.) [E] Computer Modern Typefaces Supplemental: LaTeX -- A Document Preparation System Don Knuth (of Stanford U.) is the author of the [A]-[E], and Leslie Lamport is the author of the LaTeX book. You probably only need [A] and the LaTeX book. Thad Floryan [thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ...!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad]