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Computers & Typesetting, Volume A
The TeXbook (Computers & Typesetting Series)
by Donald Knuth
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Computers & Typesetting, Volume A: The TeXbook (Computers & Typesetting Series)
January 1, 1986, Addison-Wesley Professional
in English
0201134470 9780201134476
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First Sentence
"Gentle Reader: This is a handbook about TeX, a new typesetting system intended for the creation of beautiful books--and especially for books that contain a lot of mathematics."
Table of Contents
| 1 | The Name of the Game | 1 |
| 2 | Book Printing versus Ordinary Typing | 3 |
| 3 | Controlling TeX | 7 |
| 4 | Fonts of Type | 13 |
| 5 | Grouping | 19 |
| 6 | Running TeX | 23 |
| 7 | How TeX Reads What You Type | 37 |
| 8 | The Characters You Type | 43 |
| 9 | TeX's Roman Fonts | 51 |
| 10 | Dimensions | 57 |
| 11 | Boxes | 63 |
| 12 | Glue | 69 |
| 13 | Modes | 85 |
| 14 | How TeX Breaks Paragraphs into Lines | 91 |
| 15 | How TeX Makes Lines into Pages | 109 |
| 16 | Typing Math Formulas | 127 |
| 17 | More about Math | 139 |
| 18 | Fine Points of Mathematics Typing | 161 |
| 19 | Displayed Equations | 185 |
| 20 | Definitions (also called Macros) | 199 |
| 21 | Making Boxes | 221 |
| 22 | Alignments | 231 |
| 23 | Output Routines | 251 |
| 24 | Summary of Vertical Mode | 267 |
| 25 | Summary of Horizontal Mode | 285 |
| 26 | Summary of Math Mode | 289 |
| 27 | Recovery from Errors | 295 |
| Appendices | ||
| A | Answers to All the Exercises | 305 |
| B | Basic Control Sequences | 339 |
| C | Character Codes | 367 |
| D | Dirty Tricks | 373 |
| E | Example Formats | 403 |
| F | Font Tables | 427 |
| G | Generating Boxed Formulas | 441 |
| H | Hyphenation | 449 |
| I | Index | 457 |
| J | Join the TeX Community | 483 |
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| July 28, 2014 | Edited by ImportBot | import new book |
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| October 12, 2010 | Edited by WorkBot | merge works |
| April 24, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Fixed duplicate goodreads IDs. |
| April 29, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | Imported from amazon.com record. |