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4. A Gentle Introduction to TeX by Michael Doob
A Gentle Introduction to TeX is billed as a manual for self-study.
The purpose of this manual is to start from the very beginning and to move towards these more complicated situations.
No previous knowledge of TeX is assumed by the author. By proceeding a section at a time, greater varieties of text can be produced.
The contents of the book:
- Getting Started.
- Characters requiring special input such as { } % &, accents, typesetting letters from languages other than English, quotes, different fonts.
- Make text have different shapes or sizes – examines units, page shape, paragraph shape, line shape, footnotes, headlines and footlines, overfull and underfull boxes.
- Groups.
- Provides the basic for creating beautiful typeset mathematics – symbols, fractions, subscripts and superscripts, roots, lines, delimiters and more.
- Aligning text – tabbing environment, horizontal alignment environment.
- Create new control words.
- Debugging – looks at some typical errors and the messages generated.
- Topics that allow TeX to be used with more flexibility or efficiency.
- List of the control words used in this book.
The book is published under a free license.
5. Getting Started with Plain TeX by D. R. Wilkins
This is an introductory text to the world of TeX.
Chapters explore:
- Introduction to Plain TeX.
- Producing Simple Documents using Plain TeX.
- Mathematical Formulae using Plain TeX.
- Further Features of Plain TeX.
No license is specified.
6. The Computer Science of TeX and LaTeX by Victor Eijkhout
The Computer Science of TeX and LaTeX uses the TeX and LaTeX system to provide an introduction to a number of computer science topics.
This book is based on the lecture notes of a course taught at the University of Tennessee in the fall of 2004. This is a ‘topics’ course in computer science, using TeX and LaTeX as motivation and examples.
The content of the book covers:
- The use of LaTeX for document preparation, LaTeX style file programming, and TeX programming.
- Learn the basic of language theory and parsing, and apply this to parsing TeX and LaTeX.
- Looks at dynamic programming, TeX paragraph breaking, TeX’s line breaking algorithm, nondetermininistic polynomial time (NP) completeness, basics, complexity classes, NP-completeness, page breaking, TeX’s page breaking algorithm, theory of page breaking
- Fonts, explores Bezier curves, Parametric curves, piecewise curves, curve plotting with gnuplot, raster graphics, rasterizing type, anti-aliasing.
- TeX’s macro language – this is an unfinished chapter.
- Character encoding including ISO 10646, Unicode, UTF-8, font encoding, aesthetics, the fontenc package, and more.
- Software engineering.
- Literate programming.
The book is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) license.
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