Why is TeX so hard to use? Because it is in essence a programming language and so it is best viewed from this perspective. In this book, the author presents a complete course in TeX which will be suitable for users of TeX who want to advance beyond the basics. The initial chapters introduce the essential workings of TeX, including a detailed discussion of boxes and glue. Later chapters cover a wide range of advanced topics such as: macros, conditionals, tokens, leaders, file I/O, the line- and page-break algorithms, and output routines. Throughout, numerous examples are given and exercises (with answers) provide a means for readers to test their understanding of the material. As a result, no serious user of TeX will want to be without this text.
By:
David Salomon
Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995
Dimensions:
Height: 254mm,
Width: 178mm,
Spine: 26mm
Weight: 1.940kg
ISBN: 9780387945569
ISBN 10: 0387945563
Pages: 491
Publication Date: 10 August 1995
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Professional & Vocational
,
A / AS level
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
1 Introduction.- 1 Basics.- 2 Line Breaking and Page Layout.- 3 Fonts.- 4 The CM Fonts.- 5 Font Examples.- 6 Dimensions.- 7 Scaling and Magnification.- 2 Advanced Introduction.- 1 Registers.- 2 \the.- 3 Modes.- 4 Anatomy of TEX.- 5 Characters.- 6 Upper- and Lowercase Characters.- 7 End-of-Line.- 8 Numbers.- 9 Category Codes.- 10 Commands.- 11 Assignments.- 12 Lists.- 13 Whatsits.- 14 Parameters.- 15 Discardable Items.- 16 Macros.- 17 Formats.- 3 Boxes and Glue.- 1 \hbox.- 2 Box Registers.- 3 Modes.- 4 \vbox.- 5 \boxmaxdepth.- 6 \vtop.- 7 Opening Boxes.- 8 Simple Box Examples.- 9 Glue.- 10 Infinitely Flexible Glues.- 11 Negative Multiples of fil.- 12 The filneg Glues.- 13 Glues with Negative Dimensions.- 14 Predefined Fills.- 15 Different Orders of Infinity.- 16 The Glue Set Ratio.- 17 The Definition of Badness.- 18 Classifying Bad Boxes.- 19 The Interline Glue.- 20 Suppressing the Interline Glue.- 21 \kern.- 22 Rules.- 23 Placing Accents, an Example.- 24 Phantoms and \smash.- 25 More Advanced Examples.- 26 Exercises.- 27 \vsplit.- 28 \lastbox.- 4 Paragraphs.- 1 Paragraph Start and End.- 2 \everypar.- 3 Horizontal Lists.- 4 The Interword Glue.- 5 The Interline Glue.- 6 Controlling Line Spacing.- 7 Different Paragraph Shapes.- 8 The Paragraph Indentation.- 9 The Hanging Indentation.- 10 \vadjust.- 11 \obeylines.- 12 Concatenating Paragraphs.- 13 \par.- 14 Example.- 15 \prevgraf.- 16 \parshape.- 5 Macros.- 1 Delimiting Parameters.- 2 Macro Names.- 3 Spurious Spaces.- 4 Space Following a Number.- 5 Reading the Source File.- 6 Braces.- 7 \let.- 8 \futurelet.- 9 \afterassignment.- 10 \aftergroup.- 11 \expandafter.- 12 \csname.- 13 Double ##.- 14 Nested Macro Definitions.- 15 Nested Macro Expansions.- 16 Recursion.- 17 \edef.- 18 Other Ways to Define Macros.- 19 Debugging Aids.- 20 \catcode.- 21 \jobname.- 22 \chardef.- 23 Unexpandable Control Sequences.- 24 Active Characters.- 25 Summary.- 6 Conditionals.- 1 Types of Conditionals.- 2 Boolean Variables.- 3 \ifx.- 4 \if.- 5 \ifcat.- 6 Nested ifs.- 7 Examples.- 8 Evaluation of Conditionals.- 9 Conclusion.- 7 Examples of Macros.- 1 Slanted Lines.- 2 Generating a Grid.- 3 Scanning the Argument.- 4 Transferring an Argument.- 5 Vertical Printing.- 6 Reversing the Argument.- 7 Scanning a String.- 8 Adding a Constant.- 9 Writing Strings on File.- 10 Verbatim Listings.- 11 Fancy Verbatim.- 12 Complete Verbatim Macros.- 13 Ignoring the Last Character.- 14 Spreading a String.- 15 Placing Commas between Digits.- 16 A Table with No Markup.- 17 Looking at the Next Word.- 18 Bracketing Text.- 19 A DropShadow.- 20 Combining Text and Diagrams.- 21 A Variation on \boxit.- 22 Fitting Text in a Given Box.- 23 The Sierpinski Triangle.- 24 Macros for Looping.- 25 Exercise.- 8 Tokens and File I/O.- 1 \toks.- 2 Example.- 3 Toks and Macros.- 4 File I/O.- 5 Example: Keyboard Input.- 6 Example: File Input/Output.- 7 Writing Arbitrary Strings on a File.- 8 Last Words.- 9 Multipass Jobs.- 1 Cross-referencing in a Document.- 2 General Cross-referencing.- 3 Creating a Table of Contents.- 4 The Page Number.- 5 Formatting the TOC.- 6 Remarks.- 7 A Simple Example.- 10 Special Topics.- 1 Pasting Material in Textures.- 2 Creating Shaded Boxes with PostScript.- 3 Arithmetic Calculations.- 11 Leaders.- 1 Horizontal Leaders.- 2 Brace Fills.- 3 Staggered Leaders.- 4 Vertical Leaders.- 5 Exercises.- 6 Example.- 12 Tables.- 1 \halign.- 2 Examples of \halign.- 3 Remarks.- 4 \valign.- 13 Advanced Math.- 1 General Background.- 2 Noncentered Displays.- 3 Fonts in Math Mode.- 4 The Four Styles.- 5 Mathematical Units of Dimension.- 6 Spacing in Math Mode.- 7 Ordinary Symbols.- 8 Large Operators.- 9 Binary Operations.- 10 Relations.- 11 Combining Relations.- 12 Openings and Closings.- 13 Punctuations.- 14 Inner Subformulas.- 15 Delimiters.- 16 Radicals.- 17 \mathaccent.- 18 Horizontally Extensible Symbols.- 19 Super- and Subscripts.- 20 Ellipses.- 21 The Vertical Bar.- 22 \mathsurround.- 23 Exercises.- 14 Line & Page Breaks.- 1 The Tolerance.- 2 The Definition of Demerits.- 3 The Line-break Algorithm.- 4 Hyphenation.- 5 The Page-break Algorithm.- 15 Handling Errors.- 1 Warnings.- 2 Errors.- 3 Fatal Errors.- 4 General Notes.- 16 Output Routines.- 1 Introduction.- 2 The MVL and the Page Builder.- 3 The Current Page and LRC.- 4 Examples.- 5 A Boxed Page.- 6 Header and Footer.- 7 A Title Page.- 8 Printer Crop Marks.- 9 A Bordered Page.- 10 Mailing Labels.- 11 \vsplit.- 12 Splitting a Box.- 13 Double-column Pages.- 14 \raggedbottom.- 15 Facing Figures.- 16 Selective Page Shipout.- 17 End of the Document.- 17 OTR Techniques: I.- 1 Technique: Special Penalties.- 2 The \lastxx Commands.- 3 Technique: Breaking up a Page.- 4 Duplicating a Page.- 5 Reversing a Page.- 6 Counting the Lines.- 7 Breaking up a Line of Text.- 8 Technique: Using \rightskip.- 9 Technique: Using \parshape.- 10 The Depth of \box255.- 11 Technique: Communication by Kern.- 12 Practical Examples of OTRs.- 13 Example: Start a Chapter.- 14 Example: A Religious Hymn.- 15 Example: Line Numbering.- 16 Example: Footnote Numbering.- 17 A Simple but Wrong Approach.- 18 A 2-pass Method.- 19 Another 2-pass Solution.- 20 A Complex, 3-pass Approach.- 21 Tables Broken across Pages.- 22 Communication by Special Vboxes.- 23 Verse Numbers in the Left Margin.- 24 Problems with This Approach.- 25 Verse Numbers, Another Method.- 26 A Special Box OTR.- 27 Example: Revision Bars.- 28 Summary.- 18 OTR Techniques: II.- 1 Method 1.- 2 About the Examples.- 3 Example 1: Widening Letters.- 4 Method 2.- 5 Example 2: Marginal Notes.- 6 Tests.- 7 Method 3.- 8 Example 3: Revision Bars.- 19 Insertions.- 1 Introduction.- 2 A Simple Example.- 3 Insertions (Introductory).- 4 Insertions (Intermediate).- 5 Tracing Insertions (Preliminary).- 6 Example: Endnotes.- 7 Example: Footnotes.- 8 Example: Right Margin Insertions.- 9 Example: Floating Insertions.- 10 Example: Two Insertion Classes.- 11 The Plain Format OTR.- 12 \supereject.- 13 \insertpenalties.- 14 Insertions (Advanced).- 15 Tracing (in Detail).- 16 Summary.- 17 Endnotes.- 18 Practical OTR Problems.- 20 Example Format.- 1 Preliminaries.- 2 The Main Macros.- 3 The Final Typesetting.- 4 The TOC macros.- 5 The Index.- 6 Special Characters.- References.- A Answers to Exercises.
