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Any of us, especially me, usually get error messages like: 

! LaTeX Error: Command \c@XXX already defined.
               Or name \end... illegal, see p.192 of the manual.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.

Where is the LaTeX Manual the error is talking about!?

How can I have a look at p. 192, of the named Manual?

I am using XeTeX came with TeXLive 2013, on an Ubuntu 14.04LTS.

My question is:

Isn't better to make a copy of the manual available to all!
Just takes few more MegaBytes comparing to a GigaByte distribution is nothing!

At least refer us to a publicly available reference instead of a commercial (of course very valuable but also many parts of almost out dated) book.

Omid Ghayour
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    It's a book: LaTeX: A Document Preparation System by Leslie Lamport (I am pretty sure this has come up before: I'll try to find it). – Joseph Wright Sep 17 '16 at 13:17
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    http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/246743/73 – Joseph Wright Sep 17 '16 at 13:18
  • do we have a copy of (a .dvi or .pdf form of) it in our distributions? i.e. can we have it using texdoc? – Omid Ghayour Sep 17 '16 at 13:27
  • You can buy it from nowadays: http://www.informit.com/store/latex-a-document-preparation-system-9780201529838. We've had this before: like many older pieces of software, LaTeX dates from a time when a 'manual' really did mean something in print, and as free software the only way for the author to pay for that was to sell the book. – Joseph Wright Sep 17 '16 at 13:30
  • See my post and related discussion on the earlier question, BTW – Joseph Wright Sep 17 '16 at 13:32
  • so there is no way to have a quick look to the page? – Omid Ghayour Sep 17 '16 at 13:42

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