On 5/27/13 3:31 PM, Robin Fairbairns wrote:
did you ever learn to swim? did they teach you by throwing you in the
deep end of the pool, and telling you to read the instructions on the
bottom?
No, but they did ask me to enter the pool. I learned by trial and error.
i ask, because that's what you seem to be doing here. if you want to
get a feel for tex, read "tex for the impatient
(mirror.ctan.org:/info/impatient/book.pdf -- also available in french)
if (as it seems) you want to learn latex, don't start with the latex
kernel (which is poorly commented in many places), start from the users'
point of view, with something like "short introduction to latex"
(mirror.ctan.org:/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf -- also available in
several other languages)
No. I am a happy LaTeX user, I just wanted to see TeX.
I honestly didn't realize that I asked something "deep" or "sensitive",
I thought there just was some kind a cheatsheet somewhere that I didn't
find by myself. I was wrong.
most people take some time to progress from user-level stuff to reading
the kernel's code. (fwiw, my head often swims when reading latex
internals, and i've been reading it(them) on and off since the 1980s,
before the current latex 2e was released.)
Well, I'll find myself some time to read it, then :)
