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TeX is a computer typesetting language, designed and implemented by
Donald Knuth, Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University.
While the system is in the public domain, please note that "TeX", the
TeX logo, and the TeX lion are trademarks of the American Mathematical
Society. The source code is also copyright (c) Donald Knuth. To keep
TeX as standard and portable as possible, permission to use the TeX
source code is granted only if absolutely no changes are made to it.
Likewise, permission to use the "TeX" logo is granted only to describe
systems that pass the "TRIP" acceptance test supplied with TeX.
The main user documentation is "The TeXbook" by Donald Knuth,
published by Addison-Wesley (ISBN 0-201-13448-9). (Look for the
phrase "sixth printing" on the copyright page.) The source files for
The TeXbook are part of our tape distribution. The TeXbook is
copyrighted, and is intended to be used only for reference, and to
provide examples of how to use TeX. In particular, YOU MUST NOT
REPRODUCE THE TeXBOOK IN ANY WAY. (If you have an old manual ("TeX
and Metafont, New Directions in Typesetting") you should put it away
where you'll never see it, since there are literally hundreds of
differences from the old TeX78 system that it describes. There were
various pre-prints of The TeXbook, which should be tossed out, too.)
The TeX system is available in source form from our officially
designated tape distributors. For generic ASCII or EBCDIC tapes,
Tops-20 tapes, Vax/VMS tapes, VM/CMS tapes, and MVS tapes, contact
Maria Code, 1371 Sydney Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94087, USA (phone
408-735-8006 10AM to 2:30PM Pacific Standard Time). A complete
distribution tape, plus all hardcopy documentation, costs less than
US$200. For Berkeley Vax/Unix tapes, contact Pierre Mackay,
Department of Computer Science, FR-35, University of Washington,
Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Everyone is encouraged to join the TeX Users Group. Information on
membership is available from TUG, P.O. Box 9506, Providence, RI 02940,
USA (phone 401-272-9500). TUG members receive issues of the Users
Group bulletin, called TUGboat, which reports on all sorts of
TeX-related news, including notices about who has installed TeX on
what kind of system. Yearly dues are about $30. Before making a big
effort to bring TeX up on a computer system for which we don't
currently have a distribution tape, it is a good idea to talk to other
folks in TUG with the same type system, to see if it's already been
done. We invite everyone to submit items for publication in TUGboat.
TUG also runs occasional user group meetings, and TeX classes, as
announced in TUGboat.
There is also a computer mailing list called TeXHAX maintained at
Stanford. It is intended to be a forum for announcements and
discussions of TeX-related matters. Recipients include people on all
of the following networks: ARPAnet, CSnet, BITnet, MAILnet, UUCP. If
you wish to be added, you can send a note to:
TeXhax-request%su-score.arpa
Prof. Knuth offers a reward to the first finder of any bug in TeX, or
any mistake in the TeXbook. Users may wish to consult "TeXbook Errata"
printed by the users group (and also found on distribution tapes) to
see if any TeXbook errors they find have already been accounted for.
Address any such matters to The TeX Project, at the address below.
We will have no sympathy for people having troubles with TeX because
they did not get an official distribution tape, or because they did
not join TUG and missed out on the announcement of an important bug
fix or documentation error.
Finally, here is some stuff to help you check how well characters got
translated to your character set when you read our files off the
distribution tape.
First, the uppercase alphabet: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Now lower case: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
Digits zero through nine: 0123456789
Now punctuation:
! exclamation point
" double quotes
# hash mark
$ dollar sign
% percent sign
& ampersand
' right single quote
( left paren
) right paren
* asterisk
+ plus sign
, comma
- minus sign
. period
/ slash (forward or right slash)
: colon
; semicolon
< less-than sign
= equal sign
> greater-than sign
? question mark
@ at-sign
[ left square bracket
\ left slash (backslash)
] right square bracket
^ caret or up-arrow
_ underline or leftarrow
` left single quote
{ left curly bracket
| vertical bar
} right curly bracket
~ tilde
There is a space between these parens ( ).
There is a tab between these parens ( ).
There is a form-feed between these parens ( ).
The next two lines have 80 characters in them. The line after that is blank.
00000000011111111112222222222333333333344444444445555555555666666666677777777778
12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
The End.
-David Fuchs, March 1986
Stanford University
Computer Science Dept.
TeX Project
Stanford, CA 94305
Phone 415-723-1646