The Joy of TeX

Part 1. Starters.................................................................1

0. Getting acquainted; A Key Chapter.......................3

Keys available on the keyboard

1. Learning TeX's Lingo...........................................6

Ordinary text and control sequences

2. Printers Do It With All Types.................................15

Changing fonts

3. Your First TeX Experience.................................20

Running a file through TeX

4. TeX's Erroneous Zones......................................27

Error messages, and how to respond to them

5. Spaces That Separate, Ties That Bind.....................32

Subtleties of spacing and line breaking

6. Doing It With Élan...........................................34

Special symbols and accents

Part 2. Main Courses.......................................................41

7. TeX's Brand Of Mathematics.................................43

Mathematical formulas in text

8. Lousy Breaks? Try An Artful Display..........................53

Displayed Formulas

9. The 2nd Level Of Complexity.................................58

Superscripts and subscripts

10. Our Problems Mount...........................................66

Fractions, binomial coefficients, etc.

11. Benefitting From TeX's Largess..............................72

Large operators

12. Creating Your Own Space....................................77

Controlling spacing in mathematical formulas

13. Fascinating Things That Expand By Themselves.............79

Delimiters and other variable size symbols

14. A Roman Orgy................................................88

Roman type in formulas

15. Keeping Them In Line...........................................97

Numbering formulas and aligning equations in a display

16. Too Much Of A Good Thing......................................103

Breaking formulas that are too long

17. Sophisticated Postitions.........................................108

Matrices

Part 3. Sauces & Pickles.......................................................114

18. Practicing Self Control.........................................115

Defining new control sequences

19. eX-Rated Features..................................................129

A dictionary of special TeXniques

Appendices.......................................................................191

A. The AMS Preprint Style...........................................193

B. Answers To All The Exercises....................................210

C. Bibliographies......................................................260

D. Comparison With 'plain' TeX....................................265

E. Deficient Keyboards...............................................269

F. Esoteric Symbols...................................................270

G. Further Fonts........................................................274

H. {TeX Users}........................................................281

I. Help....................................................................282

Index...........................................................................283

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