An edition ofComputers & Typesetting, Volume A: The TeXbook (Computers & Typesetting Series) (1986)
Computers & Typesetting, Volume A
The TeXbook (Computers & Typesetting Series)
byDonald Knuth
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An edition ofComputers & Typesetting, Volume A: The TeXbook (Computers & Typesetting Series) (1986)
Computers & Typesetting, Volume A
The TeXbook (Computers & Typesetting Series)
byDonald Knuth
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Book Details
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
2. Book Printing versus Ordinary Typing
3. Controlling TeX
4. Fonts of Type
5. Grouping
6. Running TeX
7. How TeX Reads What You Type
8. The Characters You Type
9. TeX's Roman Fonts
10. Dimensions
11. Boxes
12. Glue
13. Modes
14. How TeX Breaks Paragraphs into Lines
15. How TeX Makes Lines into Pages
16. Typing Math Formulas
17. More about Math
18. Fine Points of Mathematics Typing
19. Displayed Equations
20. Definitions (also called Macros)
21. Making Boxes
22. Alignments
23. Output Routines
24. Summary of Vertical Mode
25. Summary of Horizontal Mode
26. Summary of Math Mode
27. Recovery from Errors
Appendices
A. Answers to All the Exercises
B. Basic Control Sequences
C. Character Codes
D. Dirty Tricks
E. Example Formats
F. Font Tables
G. Generating Boxed Formulas
H. Hyphenation
I. Index
J. Join the TeX Community
Classifications
- Dewey Decimal Class
- 686.2/2544
- Library of Congress
- Z253.4.T47KK58 1986
Edition Identifiers
- Open Library
- OL7406778M
- ISBN 10
- 0201134470
- ISBN 13
- 9780201134476
- Goodreads
- 1190262
Work Identifiers
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- OL14941577W
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