By Raymond Seroul and Silvio Levy
A Beginner's Book of TeX
Springer-Verlag, 1992
ISBN: 0-387-97562-4
284 pages
Useful for more advanced users too, with explanations of hundreds of fundamental concepts and commands. This comprehensive manual contains many commented examples and TeX "tricks." Included also is a comprehensive Index that also serves as a dictionary.
From the back cover of
A Beginner's Book of TeX...
This book is a friendly introduction to TeX, the powerful typesetting system designed by Donald Knuth. It is addressed primarily to beginners, but it contains much information that will be usefel to aspiring TeX "wizards." Moreover, the authors kept firmly in mind the diversity of backgrounds that characterizes TeX users: authors, in the sciences and in the humanities, secretaries, technical typists...
The book contains a careful explanation of all fundamental concepts and commands, but also a wealth of commented examples and "tricks" based on the authors' long experience with TeX. The attentive reader will quickly be able to create a table, or customize the appearance of the page, or code even the most complicated formula. The last third of the book is devoted to a Dictionary/Index, summarizing all the material in the text and going into greater depth in many areas.
See the book's Table of Contents