The TeXbook

Table of Contents

1. The Name of the Game. . . . . . . . . 1

2. Book Printing versus Ordinary Typing. . . . . 3

3. Controlling TeX. . . . . . . . . . .7

4. Fonts of Type. . . . . . . . . . . 13

5. Grouping. . . . . . . . . . . . 19

6. Running TeX. . . . . . . . . . . 23

7. How TeX Reads What You Type. . . . . . . 37

8. The Characters You Type. . . . . . . . 43

9. TeX's Roman Fonts. . . . . . . . . . 51

10. Dimensions. . . . . . . . . . . 57

11. Boxes. . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

12. Glue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

13. Modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

14. How TeX Breaks Paragraphs into Lines. . . . . 91

15. How TeX Makes Lines into Pages. . . . . . . 109

16. Typing Math Formulas. . . . . . . . . 127

17. More about Math. . . . . . . . . . 139

18. Fine Points of Mathematics Typing. . . . . . 161

19. Displayed Equations. . . . . . . . . . 185

20. Definitions (also called Macros). . . . . . . 199

21. Making Boxes. . . . . . . . . . . 221

22. Alignment. . . . . . . . . . . 231

23. Output Routines. . . . . . . . . . 251

24. Summary of Vertical Mode. . . . . . . . 267

25. Summary of Horizontal Mode. . . . . . . . 285

26. Summary of Math Mode. . . . . . . . 289

27. Recovery from Errors. . . . . . . . . 295

Appendices

A. Answers to All the Exercises. . . . . . . 305

B. Basic Control Sequences. . . . . . . . . 339

C. Character Codes. . . . . . . . . . 367

D. Dirty Tricks. . . . . . . . . . . . . 373

E. Example Formats. . . . . . . . . . 403

F. Font Tables. . . . . . . . . . . . 427

G. Generating Boxes from Formulas. . . . . . 441

H. Hyphenation. . . . . . . . . . . 449

I. Index. . . . . . . . . . . . 457

J. Joining the TeX Community. . . . . . . . 483


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