Modern TEX and Its Applications
Michael Vulis · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1992
INTRODUCTION. About this Book and TEX. TEX, VTEX, and PLAIN. Organization of This Book. Basics. More Basics. Introduction to Error Handling. Input Files. FONTS AND CHARACTERS. Typesetting: A Historical Overview. Font Representation. Standard Fonts. Groups. Underlining. Other Fonts. Font Sizes and Magnification. Font Attributes. Font Compatibility and Aliasing. Character Set: Letters, Digits, Punctuation. Character Set: Special Characters. Accents and Foreign Characters. Use of Cyrillic Fonts. FORMATTING. Page Layout. Lines of Text. Headers and Footers. Page Numbers. Default Horizontal Spacing. Horizontal Skips. Paragraph Formatting. Non-Standard Paragraph Formatting. Lists. Line Breaks. Hyphenation. Overfull and Underfull Lines. Vertical Spacing. Vertical Skips. Page Breaks. Footnotes. Verbatim Printing. MATH MODE. Ordinary Math and Display Math. Subscripts and Superscripts. Mixing Text with Math. Sums and Integrals. Vertical Stacking. Fractions. Standard Function Names. Roots. Big and Adjustable Delimiters. Math Styles. Accents, Bars, Hats. Lines, Arrows, Captions. Matrices. Ellipses. Spacing Commands. Equation Numbering. Aligning Multi-Line Equations. Line Breaks in Math Mode. Symbols. Spacing. Coercion. Phantoms. Math Font Families. Extra Examples. VARIABLES, DIMENSIONS, GLUE. Variables: General Information. Numbers and Count Variables. Dimensions and Dimensional Variables. Inter-Word Spacing. Glue. Infinite Glues. Filling. Vertical Glues. Glue Variables. LOW-LEVEL STRUCTURES: MACROS, I/O. Macros as Abbreviations. Macros with Arguments. Macros with Delimited Arguments. Examples: Macros in Text Mode. Examples: A Simple Stylesheet. Examples: Macros in Math Mode. Scope of a Macro Definition. Controlling Macro Expansion. Conditional Processing: If. Conditional Processing: Case. Conditional Processing: User Defined Tests. Conditional Processing: Loops. Category Codes. Changing Category Codes. Using High ASCII Characters. Upper and Lower Cases. Conversion . Assessing Individual Characters. Tokens. Token Strings. Predefined Token Variables. TERMINAL AND FILE OPERATIONS. EXTENSIONS. Printing Messages on Screen. File and Terminal Operations. Text References. Indices. Running Other Tools from-within TEX. Special Extensions. MODES, RULES, AND BOXES. Modes of Operation. Rules. Boxes. Box Variables. Operations on Boxes. Moving Boxes. Kerning. Filling. Leaders. Gray Rules and Patterns. TABULATION AND TABLES. Tabulation. Evenly Spaced Tabs. Tabulation. Arbitrary Tabs. Alignment Templates. Using Rules in Tables. APPENDIX. Tables of Mathematical Symbols. Text Font Layouts. Line Draw Font. Symbol Font Layouts. Micropress Vector Fonts-Partial Listing. Defaults. Generating and Using Format Files. The changes. tex File. Printing Font Charts. Graphics Inclusion in TEX and VTEX.