https://github.com/CTeX-org/tex-impatient-cn

Chinese translation of the book "TeX for the Impatient"
https://github.com/CTeX-org/tex-impatient-cn

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Chinese translation of the book "TeX for the Impatient"

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/CTeX-org/tex-impatient-cn
• Owner: CTeX-org
• Created: 2016-06-07T11:37:26.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-03-08T04:47:21.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-08T20:13:03.997Z (7 days ago)
• Language: TeX
• Size: 24.9 MB
• Stars: 18
• Watchers: 10
• Forks: 8
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README

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README

        
$Id: README,v 1.5 2014/11/13 17:07:59 karl Exp $

This is the README file for the GNU (free documentation) edition of the

book TeX for the Impatient, released under the GNU Free Documentation

License.  (This README file itself is public domain.)

Primary distribution point: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/teximpatient/

 automatic redirection: http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/teximpatient

 list of mirrors for manual selection: http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html

Home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/teximpatient/

Development sources, etc.: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/teximpatient/

Information about the free edition is included at the end of the preface

and on the copyright page.

A French translation is included in the distribution,

and a Chinese translation is at https://bitbucket.org/zohooo/impatient

(with PDF at

http://zoho.is-programmer.com/user_files/zoho/epics/tex-impatient-cn.pdf).

Original high-resolution scans of the artwork are available from

http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/teximpatient/artwork.  Reduced-size bitmaps are

in the artwork/ subdirectory here.

Some random thoughts for people thinking of working with the source:

- See errata.future for some relatively small ideas for enhancements.

- You may want to translate the source into some more standard

format, such as Texinfo; we used many homegrown macros mostly to make

typing and markup easier.

- You may also want to redo the index creation to use makeindex or some

other standard program, instead of the homegrown Icon programs (or else

they need to be fixed; right now somehow the + characters used for

spaces in book.idx are preserved in book.sdx, which is wrong).  Until

the index can be easily regenerated, the page breaks can't change

without the index becoming useless.

- Printing the GFDL required many kludges, a true Eplain-compatible

version is needed (which in turn would require using the current eplain

to print the book).

Happy TeXing.