$Tex Reference Manual - David Bausum$

Tex Reference Manual

By: David Bausum

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Hardcover | 31 March 2002

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The TeX Reference Manual is the first comprehensive reference manual written by a programmer for programmers. It contains reference pages for each of TeX's 325 primitive control sequences. Over 80% of its reference pages contain examples that range from simple to challenging. Each example is typeset verbatim in a style which is easy to read and experiment with. TeX Reference Manual also just typesets the example, so you can see what it makes, and explains how the example works. The description on each primitive's reference page is an annotated discussion of The TeXbook's treatment of the primitive. That means a TeX user will find it natural to move back and forth between the two books. One of TeX Reference Manual's innovative features is families. They simplify the search for the primitive which performs a particular task.

Primitive Control Sequences,
Family Name Type Description,
Box (29) Logic (20) C Command (163),
Character (16) Macro (20) D Derived Command (17),
Debugging (25) Marks (4) IQ Internal Quantity (42),
File I/O (13) Math (69) PI Parameter (integer) (55),
Fonts (5) Page (13) PD Parameter (dimen) (21),
Glue (12) Paragraph (30) PG Parameter (glue) (15),
Hyphenation (11) Penalties (12) PM Parameter (muglue) (3),
Inserts (8) Registers (11) PT Parameter (token) (9),
Job (11) Tables (9),
Kern (7).

TeX Reference Manual has appendices which provide a comprehensive discussion of: verbatim material, PostScript fonts, and two-column material. In particular, one word describes its font macros, elegant.
The TeX Reference Manual is an invaluable tool for both the experienced and new users of TeX.

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"This is a good reference for people who have a bit of plain TeX under their belts, as the examples mix primitives and plain rather freelyIt is worth having in your reference library, particularly if you use plainTeX, or have to delve into TeX's innards for any reason."
(Stephen Moye, American Mathematical Society)

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Published: 24th October 2012

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Preface	p. ix
Families and Primitive Control Sequences	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
The Box Family	p. 2
The Character Family	p. 3
The Debugging Family	p. 4
The File I/O Family	p. 6
The Fonts Family	p. 7
The Glue Family	p. 7
The Hyphenation Family	p. 8
The Inserts Family	p. 9
The Job Family	p. 10
The Kern Family	p. 11
The Logic Family	p. 11
The Macro Family	p. 12
The Marks Family	p. 14
The Math Family	p. 14
The Page Family	p. 19
The Paragraph Family	p. 20
The Penalties Family	p. 22
The Registers Family	p. 22
The Tables Family	p. 23
Reference Pages for the Primitives	p. 25
Introduction	p. 25
The References Pages	p. 27
Typesetting Verbatim Material	p. 337
Introduction	p. 337
In-line Verbatim	p. 338
Multi-line Verbatim	p. 340
Limitations to Typesetting Verbatim Material	p. 343
Automatic Line Numbering and Verbatim	p. 347
Working with PostScript Fonts	p. 349
Introduction	p. 349
Back-end Font Macros	p. 351
Font File Names and Encoding Vectors	p. 356
Preparing Font Tables	p. 362
Typesetting Material in Two Columns	p. 367
Introduction	p. 367
Two-Column Macros	p. 367
Index Preparation	p. 372
Bibliography	p. 377
Index	p. 379
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