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+$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.