[texhax] TeXBook Appendix E online anywhere?

[Pierre MacKay]

Lars Madsen wrote:

>Peter Seibel wrote:
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>>Is the TeX code in Appendix E of Knuth's TeXBook available online
>>anywhere. I want to play with the code he used to typeset the book and
>>would rather not have to type it all in by hand.
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>>My attempts at Googling it up didn't find anything.
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>>-Peter
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>the source for the texbook is usually included in most LaTeX dists, it 
>is for looking at the code, compiling it is not allowed.
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There is certainly a clear warning against printing out the TeXbook from 
the file that has been included in TeX distributions since the 
beginning.  But that is setting and printing the entire book---not quite 
the same as extracting bits of the code from an appendix---and one would 
have to knowingly modify the head of the TeXbook file to do so.  I am 
not sure that the intentions are to prevent a something like a 
drag-and-drop extraction of bits of DEK's TeX code.  Reuse of published 
code is largely regarded as an honorable and sensible way to improve 
programs. On an X-based display (from Open Office to Emacs, as an 
example) extracts would not take very long, especially since much of it 
would be irrelevant and unwanted. 

Barbara?

Pierre MacKay