TeX for the Beginner

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Addison-Wesley Pub., Jan 1, 1992 - Computers - 400 pages
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TEX is now widely used for computer typesetting in mathematics, science, and engineering. This book is a carefully paced, tutorial introduction for people first learning the system. Special emphasis is given to what can go wrong, and how to fix things. LATEX notes are provided for use with a set of macros. Features

  1. First book about TEX that is really for beginners.
  2. Shows the reader not only what TEX is, but how to use it.
  3. Teaches the reader how to write simple macros for all major formatting tasks.
  4. Covers typesetting of mathematics, includes conditionals, and auxiliary files, and describes TEX's boxes and rules.
  5. Contains tips on diagnosing bugs, and fixing line and page breaks, along with useful reference material.

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Contents

Starting Out
3
TgXs Special Characters
16
Getting a Printout
27
Copyright

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actor model ASCII backslash badness number baseline baselineskip bigskip binary operation break chapter shows characters circumflex close brace column command control sequence describes dimension discretionary hyphen display math mode displaybreak document dollar sign dvi file endgroup equation number error message example filename flushleft font tables footnote glue halign header height hfil horizontal mode hrule hsize hskip hyphen inserted inside a group inside an hbox interword spaces italic font keywords Lamport's lAT^X letters line of text line-break math display math mode medskip minus noindent obeylines obeyspaces Oops openup overfull hbox paragraph parindent plain TeX macro primitive printout raggedright reporter Section skip Space Bug symbols T^jX takes one input template TeX puts TeX's text file TfiX TfjX TgjX TgX's TjjX topskip typeface typeset underfull vbox vertical mode vrule vskip vtop white space width words write macros

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TitleTeX for the Beginner
AuthorWynter Snow
Editionillustrated
PublisherAddison-Wesley Pub., 1992
Original fromthe University of California
DigitizedOct 29, 2010
ISBN0201547996, 9780201547993
Length400 pages
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