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Making TeX Work

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"TeX is a tool for creating professional quality, typeset pages of any kind. It is particularly good, perhaps unsurpassed, at typesetting mathematics ; as a result, it is widely used in scientific writing. Some of its other features, like its ability to handle multiple languages in the same document and the fact that the content of a document (chapters, sections, equations, tables, figures, etc.) can be separated from its form (typeface, size, spacing, indentation, etc.) are making TeX more common outside of scientific and academic circles. Designed by Donald Knuth in the late 1970s, more than a decade of refinement has gone into the program called “TeX” today. The resulting system produces publication-quality output while maintaining portability across an extremely wide range of platforms. Remarkably, TeX is free. This fact, probably as much as any other, has contributed to the development of a complete “TeX system” by literally thousands of volunteers. TeX, the pro...

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Table of Content

Why Read This Book?

Scope of This Book

Conventions Used in This Book

How to Get TeX

Where Are the Files?

Getting Software Without FTP

Getting Examples From This Book

Versions of TeX

Implementations and Platforms

UNIX

MS-DOS

OS/2

Macintosh

We'd Like to Hear From You

Acknowledgments

I. An Introduction to TeX

1. The Big Picture

What Is TeX?

TeX for Beginners

Boxes and Glue

Control Sequences

Special Characters

Text Formatting Versus Word Processing

What About Desktop Publishing?

What About troff?

What About SGML?

How TeX Works

TeXing a Simple Document

TeXing More Complex Documents

Building a Table of Contents

Figure References

Indexes and Glossaries

Bibliographies

Special Things

2. Editing

What Can an Editor Do?

Quoting Automatically

Matching Braces

Inserting Common Control Sequences

Running TeX Automatically

GNU Emacs

Starting TeX Mode

Typing in Emacs

Running TeX Automatically

aucTeX

Starting aucTeX

Typing in aucTeX

aucTeX Outline Mode

Intelligent Paragraph Reformatting

Multi-file Documents

Running TeX

Finding Errors

Multi-Edit

Setting Up TeX Support

Typing in Multi-Edit

Running TeX

Brief

MicroEMACS

epm: OS/2's Enhanced Editor

Other Tools

TeX as a Compiler

Processing a Document

Spellchecking

ispell

amSpell

Revision Control

TeX Shells

TeXShell

TeXPert

4TeX

PMTeX

TeXit

3. Running TeX

What Do You Run?

What Files Does TeX Need?

Pool Files

Format Files

User Files

The Command Line

Command-line Options

Command-line Cautions

TeX Without Options

What About Errors?

Log Files

Interpreting TeX Error Messages

Naming a File TeX Cannot Find

Misspelling a Control Sequence Name

Failure to Close an Environment

Math Outside of Math Mode

Missing Fonts

Everything Else

The Question Mark Prompt

4. Macro Packages

Installation: Making Format Files

Hyphenation Patterns

General-purpose Formats

Plain TeX

Extended Plain TeX

LaTeX2e Versus LaTeX

LaTeX2e

LaTeX

AMSTeX

AMSLaTeX

Lollipop

TeXinfo

Other Formats

Special-purpose Formats

SliTeX

FoilTeX

Seminar

TeX in Color

Setting Up Color

Using Color

Now I've Got Color, but I Need Black and White!

Color Under LaTeX2e

Color Is Subtle

Added	18 Feb 2009
Updated	18 Feb 2009
Authors	NormanWalsh

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