[Tugindia] The cooking started.

[David Kastrup]

"Dr. Dinesh Karia" <dineshjk@earth.planet.net.in> writes:

> >>>> "CVR = Radhakrishnan CV
> 
> >
> CVR> .......... TeXLive has the sources of Metafont book (and TeXBook as
> well). You can compile and see the book.

Those are _not_ provided for compilation, but as a reference
example.  Generating a dvi file from them for reading purposes is a
breach of the copyright of Addison Wesley.

> In fact, with the MiXTeX Distribution also the texbook.tex is there but it
> reads like
> 
> \loop\iftrue
>   \errmessage{This manual is copyrighted and should not be TeXed}\repeat
> \pausing1 \input manmac
> \ifproofmode\message{Proof mode is on!}\pausing1\fi
> % halftitle
> 
> Perhaps this causes the treble.

Well, those lines are there for a purpose.  Could you imagine just
what purpose that might be?

> After removing these lines and then running TeX on it works. However
> it does not compile with LaTeX.

Small wonder.  The TeXbook predates LaTeX, and even now Donald Knuth
does not use LaTeX.

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