Tex: Starting from 1 Paperback - 1993 - 1st Edition

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Getting Started.- Running TEX.- Prom TEX file to readable output, the big setup.- Let's do it!.- Commanding TEX with control words and control symbols.- What TEX won't do.- Call in the auxiliaries.- All characters great and small.- Some characters are more special than others.- Typesetting with an accent.- Dots, dashes, quotes.- Different fonts.- The shape of things to come.- Units, units, units.- Page shape.- Paragraph shape.- Line shape.- Footnotes.- Headlines and footlines.- Overfull and underfull boxes.- (Groups, (Groups, (and More Groups))).- No math anxiety here!.- Lots of new symbols.- Similar symbols.- Fractions.- Subscripts and superscripts.- Roots, square and otherwise.- Lines, above and below.- Delimiters large and small.- Those special functions.- Hear ye, hear ye!.- Matrices.- Multilined displayed equations.- All in a row.- Picking up the tab.- Horizontal alignment with more sophisticated patterns.- Rolling your own.- The long and short of it.- Filling in with parameters.- By any other name.- Taking it to the limit.- To err is human.- The forgotten bye.- The misspelled or unknown control sequence.- The misnamed font.- Mismatched mathematics.- Mismatched braces.- Digging a little deeper.- Big files, little files.- Larger macro packages.- Going for the count.- Horizontal and vertical lines.- Boxes within boxes.- Some special additions.- I get by with a little help.- Control sequence index.- Tables revisited.