TeX By Example

How to use this book..............................vii

The preset format of Plain TeX; simple spacing; centering.

Prologue..............................ix

Magnification; adjusting page size and position; paragraphs; page breaks.

Contents..............................xi

Making itemized Lists; line breaks.

Introduction..............................1

Basic commands; command characters; typesfaces; spacing; mathtematics mode; processing the input; errors.

Examples

I. On writing simply..............................21
Displaying text in narrow or broad format; shaping paragraphs.

II. Square root of 2 is irrational..............................25
Displaying equations; fractions; powers; roots; footnotes.

III. Cauchy horizons..............................31
Set theoretic symbols; blank space inserts for diagrams.

IV. A spanish interlude..............................35
`Unusual' punctuation; accents; overlap commands.

V. Trapped surfaces in Gödel's universe..............................37
Matrices; aligning equations; indices; partial derivatives; footnotes.

VI. Sunil Gavaskar: a statistical tribute..............................45
Tables

VII. On zeros of solutions of x + F(t)x = 0..............................53
Derivatives and integrals; aligning equations.

VIII. The many faces of Dirac..............................59
Hanging indentation.

IX. From Ramanujan's letters to Hardy..............................61
Details of typesetting equations.

X. Typography..............................65
Typeface styles and sizes.

XI. A letter..............................67
Definitions; letters.

XII. A memorandum..............................69
More definitions; storing variables; loop commands; memoranda.

XIII. A conversation..............................71
Conditional commands; a simple script.

XIV. Fermat's last theorem..............................73
Programming in TeX.

XV. On boxing..............................75
Arranging material in horizontal and vertical boxes.

XVI. Playing around..............................77
Framing text; shading boxes; other simpleminded effects.

XVII. Scenes from a magazine..............................81
Simple aspects of magazine design.

Acknowledgements..............................87
Font switching; ragged right edges; suppressing hyphenation.

References..............................89
Automatic numbering; lists within lists.

Appendix..............................91
An index and a glossary.

Epilogue..............................161
The input for the input (or, how to cook a book).

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