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From: "Robert F. Beeger" <5beeger@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Subject: Wanting to learn plain TeX
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:15:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.0.20000831130011.00b1b9a0@pop.btx.dtag.de> (raw)

Hello!

I'm reading this mailing list since April, but I must confess that I'm not 
understanding a whole bunch of the postings that were made on it.

I asked myself for the reason and found out that all this posting that I 
don't understand make a great use of plain Tex, which I don't really know.
I used LaTeX and then converted to ConTeXt, which both in their own ways 
take away the pain to cope with plain TeX from the user.

But as I see it, the really cool things in ConTeXt have to be done with 
plain TeX or with ConTeXt and plain TeX.
So I decided to learn TeX at its roots.

Does someone know a good hands-on book about TeX. Or is the TeX-Book by 
Knuth still the best one available?

Thanks in advance and happy conTeXting
      Robert


             reply	other threads:[~2000-08-31 11:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-08-31 11:15 Robert F. Beeger [this message]
2000-08-31 12:03 ` Hans Hagen
2000-09-04 17:57   ` Robert F. Beeger
2000-09-05 10:35     ` HoHo
     [not found] ` <4.3.2.7.0.20000904194500.00b207c0@rzdspc1.informatik.uni-h amburg.de>
2000-09-04 18:23   ` Side by side images Tom Sobota
2000-09-04 20:53     ` Hans Hagen
2000-09-05 13:53       ` Hraban
2000-09-05 15:04       ` Tom Sobota
2000-09-05 16:25         ` Hans Hagen
2000-09-05  6:39     ` Zeljko Vrba
2000-09-04 20:45   ` Wanting to learn plain TeX Hans Hagen
2000-09-06 15:10     ` Robert F. Beeger
     [not found] ` <4.3.2.7.0.20000906165719.00b24670@rzdspc1.informatik.uni-h amburg.de>
2000-09-06 16:11   ` Hans Hagen
2000-09-07  1:47     ` Mr. Wang Lei

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