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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2011-01-28 23:17:53 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2011-01-28 23:17:53 +0000
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impatient doc update; leave megabytes of artwork just on ctan
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@21214 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
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-rw-r--r--Master/texmf-dist/doc/plain/impatient/errata.future16
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/plain/impatient/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/plain/impatient/README
index 07dee675182..ede492f3cd2 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/plain/impatient/README
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/plain/impatient/README
@@ -1,24 +1,20 @@
+$Id: README,v 1.3 2011/01/27 22:16:24 karl Exp $
This is the README file for version 1.0 of the free 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://tug.org/tex/impatient
-It is also available from http://mirror.ctan.org/info/impatient/.
+Primary distribution is through CTAN:
+ http://mirror.ctan.org/info/impatient/
+
+TeX for the Impatient is also a GNU package, and the development sources,
+contact information, and other project details are available at
+http://www.gnu.org/software/teximpatient.
Information about the free edition is included at the end of the preface
and on the copyright page.
We'd be interested in hearing about any projects undertaken with this
-material. See errata.future for some relatively small ideas for
-enhancements.
-
-TeX for the Impatient is also a GNU project, and the development
-sources, contact information, and other project details are available at
-http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/teximpatient.
-
-TeX for the Impatient has been (independently!) translated into a wikibook:
-http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/TeX_for_the_Impatient
+material. See errata.future for some ideas.
Some random thoughts for people thinking of working with the source:
@@ -26,7 +22,7 @@ Some random thoughts for people thinking of working with the source:
- You may want to translate the source into some more standard format; we
used many homegrown macros to make typing and markup easier.
-- You may want to redo the index creation to use makeindex or some
+- You may also want to redo the index creation to use makeindex or some
other standard program, instead of our homegrown Icon programs (included
in the distribution, for what it's worth). Until the index can be
easily regenerated, the page breaks can't change without the index
@@ -37,4 +33,4 @@ version is needed (which in turn would require using the current eplain
to print the book).
-Happy (and quick) TeXing!
+Happy TeXing.
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/plain/impatient/errata.future b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/plain/impatient/errata.future
index 8b364ffc315..78ed14aba37 100644
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/plain/impatient/errata.future
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/plain/impatient/errata.future
@@ -1,9 +1,21 @@
-$Id: errata.future,v 1.2 2003/09/16 21:17:27 karl Exp $
+$Id: errata.future,v 1.2 2011/01/27 22:16:24 karl Exp $
Ideas for future changes. Did not make these in the free edition since
I didn't want to change the page breaks because I didn't want to install
Icon so I could regenerate the index -- aside from lack of time and
-inclination. :)
+inclination. :) See the README.
+
+
+- incorporate the images in the artwork/ subdirectory.
+
+- discuss CTAN, other Internet resources, plain or generic macro
+ packages, and so on.
+
+- extend with descriptions of e-TeX, pdftex, omega.
+
+- html output, perhaps using tex2page.
+ http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/tex2page/tex2page-doc.html
+ (tex4ht did nothing useful with it, but maybe with work ...)
from Will Adams: