TEX is the program for printing high quality mathematical text to which all others are compared. It is flexible enough to be used on many different
computer architectures and operating systems ranging from microcomputers to mainframes. In a relatively short period of time it has become
the standard tool for mathematical typesetting at practically all major universities. The versality of TEX has allowed it to be used in a wide
variety of applications; for example, it is used for publishing scholarly
journals which adhere to the highest typesetting standards, and also to
publish student papers and theses. This book is designed for the
complete newcomer to TEX. It starts by showing how to typeset simple text
that mostly uses the defaults predefined by TEX. By use of
graded exercises, the situations covered slowly become more complex and include many different types of mathematical constructions and tables. In
the end it is possible to handle almost any standard mathematical
situation. The different tables presented in this book allow it to
be used as a quick reference. The similar features of TEX are gathered
together whenever possible to give an overview that is a good foundation forbecoming more proficient and for doing more creative typesetting. This
book can be used either as a tool to learn just enough TEX to write standardmathematical papers of modest complexity or as a building block to prepare
for more ambitious typesetting projects.
By:
Michael Doob
Imprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions:
Height: 254mm,
Width: 178mm,
Spine: 7mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9783540564416
ISBN 10: 3540564411
Pages: 114
Publication Date: 04 November 1993
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Getting Started.- Running TEX.- Prom TEX file to readable output, the big setup.- Let’s do it!.- Commanding TEX with control words and control symbols.- What TEX won’t do.- Call in the auxiliaries.- All characters great and small.- Some characters are more special than others.- Typesetting with an accent.- Dots, dashes, quotes.- Different fonts.- The shape of things to come.- Units, units, units.- Page shape.- Paragraph shape.- Line shape.- Footnotes.- Headlines and footlines.- Overfull and underfull boxes.- {Groups, {Groups, {and More Groups}}}.- No math anxiety here!.- Lots of new symbols.- Similar symbols.- Fractions.- Subscripts and superscripts.- Roots, square and otherwise.- Lines, above and below.- Delimiters large and small.- Those special functions.- Hear ye, hear ye!.- Matrices.- Multilined displayed equations.- All in a row.- Picking up the tab.- Horizontal alignment with more sophisticated patterns.- Rolling your own.- The long and short of it.- Filling in with parameters.- By any other name.- Taking it to the limit.- To err is human.- The forgotten bye.- The misspelled or unknown control sequence.- The misnamed font.- Mismatched mathematics.- Mismatched braces.- Digging a little deeper.- Big files, little files.- Larger macro packages.- Going for the count.- Horizontal and vertical lines.- Boxes within boxes.- Some special additions.- I get by with a little help.- Control sequence index.- Tables revisited.
