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Making TeX Work
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Making TeX Work

by Norman Walsh
April 1994
Intermediate to advanced
522 pages
9h 12m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Table of Contents

Forward to the SourceForge Edition

Acknowledgments

Preface

Why Read This Book?

Scope of This Book

Conventions Used in This Book

How to Get TeX

Where Are the Files?

Getting Software Without FTP

Getting Examples From This Book

Versions of TeX

Implementations and Platforms

UNIX

MS-DOS

OS/2

Macintosh

We'd Like to Hear From You

Acknowledgments

I. An Introduction to TeX

1. The Big Picture

What Is TeX?

TeX for Beginners

Boxes and Glue

Control Sequences

Special Characters

Text Formatting Versus Word Processing

What About Desktop Publishing?

What About troff?

What About SGML?

How TeX Works

TeXing a Simple Document

TeXing More Complex Documents

Building a Table of Contents

Figure References

Indexes and Glossaries

Bibliographies

Special Things

2. Editing

What Can an Editor Do?

Quoting Automatically

Matching Braces

Inserting Common Control Sequences

Running TeX Automatically

GNU Emacs

Starting TeX Mode

Typing in Emacs

Running TeX Automatically

aucTeX

Starting aucTeX

Typing in aucTeX

aucTeX Outline Mode

Intelligent Paragraph Reformatting

Multi-file Documents

Running TeX

Finding Errors

Multi-Edit

Setting Up TeX Support

Typing in Multi-Edit

Running TeX

Brief

MicroEMACS

epm: OS/2's Enhanced Editor

Other Tools

TeX as a Compiler

Processing a Document

Spellchecking

ispell

amSpell

Revision Control

TeX Shells

TeXShell

TeXPert

4TeX

PMTeX

TeXit

3. Running TeX

What Do You Run?

What Files Does TeX Need?

Pool Files

Format Files

User Files

The Command Line

Command-line Options

Command-line ...

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