[Tugindia] The cooking started.

[S. venkataraman]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Dr. Dinesh Karia [SMTP:dineshjk@earth.planet.net.in]
> Sent:	Sunday, October 20, 2002 2:04 PM
> To:	tugindia@tug.org
> Subject:	Re: [Tugindia] The cooking started.
> 
> >>>> "CVR = Radhakrishnan CV
> 
> >
> CVR> .......... TeXLive has the sources of Metafont book (and TeXBook
> as
> well). You can compile and see the book.
> 
> 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. After removing these lines and then
> running
> TeX on it works. However it does not compile with LaTeX.
	Hi, the purpose of the putting the source of TEX BOOK,(also
METAFONT BOOK) online is to 
	enable people to look at the 
	macros, output routines  etc to learn tex.  By printing the
book, one would 
	be violating the copyright rules and depriving Knuth of
royalties.
	Venkataraman.