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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
Page 1
2.
Book Printing versus Ordinary Typing
Page 3
3.
Controlling TeX
Page 7
4.
Fonts of Type
Page 13
5.
Grouping
Page 19
6.
Running TeX
Page 23
7.
How TeX Reads What You Type
Page 37
8.
The Characters You Type
Page 43
9.
TeX's Roman Fonts
Page 51
10.
Dimensions
Page 57
11.
Boxes
Page 63
12.
Glue
Page 69
13.
Modes
Page 85
14.
How TeX Breaks Paragraphs into Lines
Page 91
15.
How TeX Makes Lines into Pages
Page 109
16.
Typing Math Formulas
Page 127
17.
More about Math
Page 139
18.
Fine Points of Mathematics Typing
Page 161
19.
Displayed Equations
Page 185
20.
Definitions (also called Macros)
Page 199
21.
Making Boxes
Page 221
22.
Alignments
Page 231
23.
Output Routines
Page 251
24.
Summary of Vertical Mode
Page 267
25.
Summary of Horizontal Mode
Page 285
26.
Summary of Math Mode
Page 289
27.
Recovery from Errors
Page 295
Appendices
A.
Answers to All the Exercises
Page 305
B.
Basic Control Sequences
Page 339
C.
Character Codes
Page 367
D.
Dirty Tricks
Page 373
E.
Example Formats
Page 403
F.
Font Tables
Page 427
G.
Generating Boxed Formulas
Page 441
H.
Hyphenation
Page 449
I.
Index
Page 457
J.
Join the TeX Community
Page 483
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