General ⇒ latex implementation of Knuth's TeXbook

[20230329]

Is there any latex implementation of Knuth's TeXbook format?

https://ctan.org/pkg/texbook?lang=en

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

welcome to the forum!

The book is copyrighted and the source is available for learning and understanding TeX. Even compiling it with TeX is not allowed as you can see in the source file at the beginning. So even with LaTeX it would not be allowed. "Translating" it to LaTeX would so just be a theoretical task, and possible it may not be allowed to use that copyrighted data for it. I cannot say something legally, it's just my understanding.

Stefan

[20230329]

I did say "is there any latex implementation of Knuth's TeXbook format?" I try to use the format (not the content) for documenting the literate programming.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLan ... _it_wrong/
says "I love literate programming for tutorials and books." This is the kind of things that I look for.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Well, the format is actually plain, if you mean the formatting macros you may have a look at https://ctan.net/systems/knuth/dist/lib/manmac.tex which contains the macros for the book, which could be translated. I did not see anyone making LaTeX macros for it. The whole directory https://ctan.net/systems/knuth/ or https://ctan.net/systems/knuth/dist/ may be interesting.

Stefan