Table of Contents
Forward to the SourceForge Edition
Getting Examples From This Book
Text Formatting Versus Word Processing
What About Desktop Publishing?
Inserting Common Control Sequences
Intelligent Paragraph Reformatting
Interpreting TeX Error Messages
Misspelling a Control Sequence Name
Failure to Close an Environment
Installation: Making Format Files
Now I've Got Color, but I Need Black and White!
II. Elements of a Complex Document
Expressing Magnification in TeX
Selecting Fonts with the New Font Selection Scheme
Automatic Font Generation by DVI Drivers
Inserting PostScript Images into TeX
7. International Considerations
Building Multilingual Babel Formats
What Files Does MetaFont Need?
Output at Very High Resolutions
Output at Very Low Resolutions
12. Bibliographies, Indexes, and Glossaries
Building a Bibliography Database
13. Non-commercial Environments
Installing the Beta Test Versions of emTeX
Automatic Font Generation with emTeX
Styles That Produced This Book
E. GNU Free Documentation License
1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
7. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
10. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
How to use this License for your documents
List of Figures
1.1. The Letters g and h inside their boxes.
1.2. Example figure produced by both TeX and troff
1.4. High-level view of TeX including more detail
1.5. TeXing a More Complex Document
2.1. Extension setup in Multi-Edit
2.2. LaTeX as a compiler in Multi-Edit
2.3. Editing a file with MicroEMACS
2.4. Microsoft Windows online help for LaTeX
2.5. Editing a TeX document with epm under OS/2
2.6. Edit settings control word delimiters
2.7. Spellchecking a document with amSpell
4.10. Online documentation produced by MakeInfo
4.12. The ChemTeX Source for Caffeine
4.13. A lithium cation rendered by ChemStruct
4.14. The ChemStruct Source for the Lithium Cation
4.16. The MusicTeX Source for Figure
5.1. fi as two characters and as a ligature
5.3. The Computer Modern Roman letter R at 150pt: (a) from a 5pt design; (b) from a 17pt design
5.4. How TeX uses a virtual font
6.1. An example diagram in Plain TeX
6.3. A figure created with (a) epic, and (b) eepic
6.4. Several bezier curves created with the LaTeX bezier style
6.5. Sample diagrams using PiCTeX
6.8. A PostScript bounding box example
6.9. An example of an encapsulated figure
6.10. Another example of an encapsulated figure (resized and rotated)
6.11. Editing an image with xfig
6.12. Editing an image with idraw
6.13. Editing an image with tgif
6.14. An example of bitmap editing an icon
6.15. A text mode screen dump.
7.1. Character mapping example
7.4. Arabic text typeset with ArabTeX
8.1. Resolution of the bitmap and the device changed simultaneously
8.2. Resolution of the bitmap changed while device held constant
8.3. Previewing and printing with emTeX
9.1. How Previewing with xdvi Works
9.3. How Previewing with xtex Works
9.5. Previewing with Ghostview
9.6. Previewing with emTeX's dviscr
9.7. Previewing with emTeX's dvipm
9.9. Previewing with ArborText's Previewer
9.10. Previewing with TurboTeX dvideo (using limited selection of fonts)
9.11. Previewing with Personal TeX's Previewer
9.12. Previewing with dvimswin
9.14. Previewing with TurboTeX's wdviwin
9.15. Previewing with Y&Y's DVIWindo
9.16. DVIWindo preview much enlarged
9.17. Previewing with dvgt under Tektronix 4010 emulation
10.2. Online documentation produced by MakeInfo
11.1. A figure eight created with MetaFont
12.1. Editing an article entry with \program{bibview}
12.2. Editing an article entry with \program{xbibtex}
12.3. Editing an article entry with \program{bibdb}
14.2. PCTeX For Windows editing and previewing a LaTeX document
14.3. PCTeX For Windows TrueType font metric builder
14.4. Editing a document with Scientific Word
14.5. Preview of the Scientific Word document shown in Figure
15.1. Editing, previewing, and typesetting in Textures
15.2. Alpha editing the fonts chapter from this book
15.3. \program{BBEdit} editing the fonts chapter from this book
15.4. \program{Excalibur} spellchecking the fonts chapter from this book
15.5. The \program{Hyper\BibTeX} view of a bibliographic database
List of Tables
1.1. Special Characters in Plain TeX
1.2. How to Typeset Special Characters
2.1. aucTeX Math Operators in Mathematics Minor-mode
5.1. Standard Weight and Width Designations
5.2. Weight and Width Are Combined to Form Series
5.3. Standard Abbreviations of Font Shape
5.4. User-level Font Selection Control Sequences in NFSS2
5.5. Encoding Schemes Supported by NFSS2
6.1. Graphics Manipulation Packages
6.2. Graphics Editing Packages
7.1. Standard Control Sequences for Symbols from Other Character Sets
7.2. New Control Sequences Proposed by TWGMLC
7.3. Language Switch Macros Proposed by TUG
8.2. Other \protect\dvilaserhp Utilities
8.3. Other \protect\dvilaserps Utilities
11.1. Some Popular MetaFont Fonts on the CTAN Archives
12.1. Types of Entries with Required and Optional Fields
13.1. Summary of the \protect\emTeX Distribution
13.2. Fonts Libraries Available for \protect\emTeX on CTAN
13.3. Other \protect\emTeX Executables
13.4. The Beta Test Files for \protect\emTeX
14.2. Turbo\protect\TeX \protect\MF Programs
15.1. Summary of the \protect\cmactex Distribution at CTAN
15.2. Summary of the \protect\oztex Distribution at CTAN
15.3. Font Tools in the BSR package
16.1. The Public Doman DVI Driver Family
16.3. Additional Scripts in PS Utils
B.1. The Computer Modern Roman Font Encoding
B.2. The Computer Modern Math Italic Font Encoding
B.4. The Adobe Standard Font Encoding
List of Examples
1.1. An Example of a TeX Document
1.2. A typical bibliography database entry
2.2. Local Variables in an Emacs Buffer
2.4. Revision Control Macros for TeX Documents Using RCS}
5.1. Font-shape Declaration with NFSS2
5.2. Font-shape declaration with NFSS2 (simplified)
6.1. The Input for the Plain TeX Diagram
6.8. Converting Encapsulated PostScript to a Bitmap with Ghostscript
6.9. Script for Inserting a Captured Text Screen
7.1. {A Sample Multilingual Document Using English and French}
11.1. The Code for the Figure Eight
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