TeX for the BeginnerTEX 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
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... paragraph . To find out how wide this white space should be , TEX asks the primitive reporter called \ parindent ... paragraph makes it hard to see and does not change the indentation at the beginning of the current paragraph . TEX uses ...
... paragraph . To find out how wide this white space should be , TEX asks the primitive reporter called \ parindent ... paragraph makes it hard to see and does not change the indentation at the beginning of the current paragraph . TEX uses ...
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... paragraph . That is why the first paragraph of all the examples is not indented . \ noindent is a primitive — and a doer , not a reporter . It says to start a new paragraph without any indentation . Similarly , the primitive called ...
... paragraph . That is why the first paragraph of all the examples is not indented . \ noindent is a primitive — and a doer , not a reporter . It says to start a new paragraph without any indentation . Similarly , the primitive called ...
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... paragraph ends . ( I'll soon tell you how I avoided this problem in the earlier example . ) The printout does have a nonindented paragraph — but it is the same width ... Paragraphs End 129 There are several ways of ending a paragraph in TEX.
... paragraph ends . ( I'll soon tell you how I avoided this problem in the earlier example . ) The printout does have a nonindented paragraph — but it is the same width ... Paragraphs End 129 There are several ways of ending a paragraph in TEX.
Contents
Adjusting Awkward Line Breaks | 41 |
Making New Control Sequences | 51 |
A Smorgasbord of Fonts | 65 |
Copyright | |
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actor model ASCII backslash badness number baseline baselineskip begingroup bigskip binary operation break chapter shows characters close brace column command control sequence describes dimension discretionary hyphen displaybreak document dollar sign dvi file endgroup equation number error message example filename flushleft font tables footnote glue halign header hfil horizontal mode hrule hsize hskip hyphen inserted inside a group inside an hbox interword spaces italic font keywords Lamport's LATEX book LATEX Notes Let TEX 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 quad raggedright reporter sans serif Section skip Space Bug symbols takes one input template TEX finds TEX puts TEX typesets TEX's TEXnique text file topskip typeface underfull vbox vertical mode vrule vskip vtop white space width words write macros