Joy of Tex: A Gourmet Guide to Typesetting With the Ams-Tex Macro Package - (a gourmet guide to typesetting with the AMS-TEX macro package ) - Michael Spivak (1990)
ISBN 0821829971
Subject Computerized typesetting; Mathematics printing - Computer programs
Publisher American Mathematical Society
Publication Date 4/1/1990
Format Paperback (229 x 178 mm)
Language eng
Plot
The Joy of TeX is the user-friendly guide to AMSTeX, a software package based on the computer typesetting language TeX. AMSTeX was designed to simplify typesetting of mathematical quantities, equations, and displays, and to format the output according to any of various preset style specifications. This second edition of Joy reflects the changes introduced on Version 2.0 of the AMSTeX macro package. The first two parts of the manual, "Starters" and "Main Courses", teach the reader how to typeset the kind of text and mathematics one ordinarily encounters. "Sauces and Pickles", the third section, treats more exotic problems and includes a 60-page dictionary of special TeXniques. The manual also includes descriptions of conventions of mathematical typography to help the novice technical typist. Appendices list handy summaries of frequently used and more esoteric symbols. This manual is useful for technical typists as well as scientists who prepare their own manuscripts. For the novice, exercises sprinkled generously throughout each chapter encourage the reader to sit down at a terminal and learn through experimentation.
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LoC Classification Z253.4.T47S673 1990
Dewey 686.2/25445369
Edition 2nd ed.
Cover Price $41.00
No. of Pages 309
Notes
Includes index.