Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: W. Greenhouse Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.slackware Subject: Re: TeX and Scribus Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 14:10:28 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 17 Message-ID: <87inzto6gb.fsf@example.com> References: <6e43b61d-fa80-4314-8631-ba6e7ac845e9@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9cbedd9608f5f9428e132283899405a8"; logging-data="14116"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18zzIMgjJ0YclWZ4UwQsF5z" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7kR1GKlVvVlXXaO55XPUL2gy1n0= sha1:87PxUF4WKdF11wN0WMA45rYMZOo= Xref: csiph.com alt.os.linux.slackware:26621 Martha Adams writes: [...] > I think that in fact, Slackware's old plain TeX is an excellent > starting point. Good practice would be to provide that, and then > offer the various elaborations for those who find some need for > them. In the mean time, I think it's worthwhile to mention that > Knuth's seminal book, 'The TEXbook', surely connects closely to > TeXs such as Slackware's, so that a beginner can start with a > plain TeX and that book, and work herself into a very useful > capacity for using it. I wonder how people get started with those > later elaborated varieties? TeTeX is alredy not a "plain TeX." It contains a LaTeX implementation, just one that's 11 years out of date (and LaTeX has had significant work in that time).