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The Joy of TeX, 2nd editionBy M.D. Spivak, Ph.D.
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A Gourmet Guide to Typesetting with the AMS-TeX macro package
The AMS-TeX gospel. This manual contains exercises that encourage the reader to learn by experimentation. Covers both the basic and obscure uses of AMS-TeX.
The AMS-TeX macros require the use of the AMS PostScript fonts, also available from Blue Sky.
From the back cover of
The Joy of TeX, 2nd edition...
This is the user-friendly user's guide for AMS-TeX, an extension of TeX, Donald Knuth's revolutionary program for typesetting technical material. AMS-TeX was designed to simplify the input of mathematical material in particular and to format the output according to any of various preset style specifications. This manual is useful both for the technical typist and for scientists preparing their own manuscripts. Exercises sprinkled generously through each chapter encourage the reader to sit down at a terminal and learn through experimentation.
The first two parts of the manual, "Starters" and "Main Courses," teach the reader how to typeset most normally encountered text and mathematics. "Sauces and Pickles," the third section, treats more exotic problems and includes a 60-page dictionary of special TeXniques. Scientists and experienced technical typists will readily appreciate that AMS-TeX gives them easy control over the appearance of a page of technical copy. Descriptions of the conventions of mathematical typography will help the novice technical typist. Appendices list handy summaries of frequently used and more esoteric symbols, as well as answer to the exercises.
Spivak's lively style, peppered with jokes and "other fossil evidences of literary low life," makes this an entertaining manual.
See the book's Table of Contents