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From: John Kenagy <jktheowl@bga.com>
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To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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Subject: Re: teTeX, latex, Lyx Books
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Thanks,

I like mush.;-)

John

On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Greg Lehey wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 21, 1997 at 03:55:16AM +0000, Ruslan Shevchenko wrote:
> > John Kenagy wrote:
> >
> >> Now that I've about got a behemoth of a text processing system
> >> loaded up. I need to know how to use it!;-)
> >>
> >> Anybody got any reccomended books on latex, tex (teTeX), etc.?
> >
> >
> >  1. TeX book by D. Knuth.
> 
> Read this and watch your brain turn to mush.  I think it's one of the
> most useless books I've come across.  It's full of arcania, and
> instead of telling you what to do, it presents everything as a series
> of problems.  As if TeX wasn't enough of a problem by itself.
> 
>  2. LaTeX users quide by L. Lamport.
> 
> This book is better.  But then, so are most books.
> 
> As may be evident, I don't like TeX.  It's not for want of trying; I
> used it exclusively for several years.  Troff was like a breath of
> fresh air.  Don't take this as a criticism of lyx; I haven't tried
> lyx, and if it hides the obscenities of TeX well, it could be quite
> useful.
> 
> Greg
> 
>