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Electronic version of Knuth's “TeXbook”?
I have a printed copy of the TeXbook (from D.E. Knuth) at home. Now that I travel a lot, I don't want to take my library with me every time. Question:
Is there a legal way to obtain (=purchase) a PDF ...
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An old italian translation of The TeXbook [closed]
DEK once said (TUGboat Volume 13 (1992), No. 4, page 423):
The TeXbook has been translated not only into Japanese, but also into Italian (though not yet published in Italian).
The people who did ...
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The TeXbook: Spiral or hard-cover binding?
I would like to purchase Donald Knuth's TeXbook, and I have noticed that there are two versions available. One is a spiral-bound edition, usually sold by itself. The other is a hard-cover edition, ...
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New Edition of TeXBook [closed]
Here I asked a question about moving from LaTeX to plain TeX and one of the recommendations was to look Knuth's TeXBook.
I was looking into this when I came across this update on Knuth's website, ...
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Learning TeX via the TeXbook
As I most often am not able even to ask the right question, much lesser to understand answers, I have decided to read thoroughly Knuth's TeXbook. But on Appendix B--Control Sequences--I find ...
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What is the latest edition of Knuth's “Computers & Typesetting” Series? [closed]
I would like to buy Knuth's "millenium boxed set" of Computers & Typesetting, but I can't figure out if there is more than one edition. The "Computers & Typesetting" books were originally ...
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How on earth did Knuth do it?
Donald Knuth has written what are arguably the most beautiful books with the TeX system.
Now I understand that Knuth wrote them in plain TeX, and still uses plain TeX for his current projects. Which, ...
