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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/plain/impatient/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/plain/impatient/README index e4920fc0e74..624f82cb25d 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/plain/impatient/README +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/plain/impatient/README @@ -1,27 +1,32 @@ -$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 +$Id: README,v 1.2 2020/01/02 23:36:14 karl Exp $ +This is the README file for the CTAN (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 +Information about the free edition is included at the end of the preface +and on the copyright page. -Home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/teximpatient/ +Home page: https://ctan.org/pkg/impatient/ +Chinese and French translations (independently maintained), as well as +all sources and PDFs, are available from there. -Development sources, etc.: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/teximpatient/ +The book is looking for a maintainer; see README and errata.future for +ideas. I (Karl) don't plan to make any more releases, unless significant +bugs are found. But you can email me at karl@freefriends.org if need be. -Information about the free edition is included at the end of the preface -and on the copyright page. +For convenience, the diffs between all the free releases +are in the diffs/ subdirectory. To download the full releases, see +the urls in NEWS. -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). + +There is also a GNU package for the book, which is maintained +separately. Its home page: https://gnu.org/software/teximpatient/ +The GNU version does not, at this writing, include the fixes made in +2020 (see NEWS and ChangeLog). 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. +in the artwork/ subdirectory on CTAN. Some random thoughts for people thinking of working with the source: @@ -29,8 +34,8 @@ 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. +format, such as Texinfo; we used many homegrown macros, mostly just +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 |