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First comprehensive reference manual written by professional programmers. Contains reference pages for each of TeX's 325 primitive control sequences. ... Read more

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Concrete help for a power use of TeX
The book provides concrete help for a power use of TeX because, along with a systematic description of the TeX primitives it contains little, useful pieces of code I was looking from long years for. Maybe a little bit expensive ;-) ... Read more

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TEX is a scientific typesetting package used by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists and many within the social sciences. The program is an extremely complex and technical system, challenging the most experienced users. This software package provides TEX users with a set of data files and on-line access to help screens for definitions and explanations of all TEX commands. It describes which commands are to be used for which typesetting purposes. The package offers information on many commonly used typesetting terms and techniques, and also includes descriptions of virtually every TEX command. "TEXHelp" should prove a useful resource for authors, professionals, technical typists and those teaching TEX to others. It should also be a useful quick reference for commands not used frequently. The program is written in C and runs on IBM PCs and clones operating under DOS or Microsoft Windows 3.0. It will also run on UNIX workstations. The program was developed by Arvind Borde, with the assistance of Tomas Rokicki. This program allows users to save entries in files, which can be processed with TEX and printed or previewed.It also permits, on select systems, direct TEX previewing of entries by simply pressing a single key. ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on TEX, XML, and Digital Typography, held jointly with the 25th Annual Meeting of the TEX User Group, TUG 2004 in Xanthi, Greece in August/September 2004.

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This handy reference describes techniques and tricksneeded to illustrate LaTeX documents, and answers common userquestions about graphics and PostScript fonts. It provides the firstfull description of the standard LaTeX color and graphics packages,and shows how you can combine TeX and PostScript capabilities toproduce beautifully illustrated pages. Following the successful formatof The LaTeX Companion, this new book is an invaluable LaTeX resourcefor people incorporating pictures into text.

You will learn how to: incorporate graphic files into a LaTeXdocument, program technical diagrams using several differantlanguages, produce color pictures, achieve special effects withfragments of embedded PostScript, and make high-quality music scoresand games diagrams.

You will find detailed descriptions of: important packages likeXy-pic, PSTricks, and METAPOST; the standard LaTeX color and graphicspackages; PostScript fonts and how to use them in LaTeX; the dvips dvito PostScript driver; and Ghostscript, the free interpreter that letsyou view or print PostScript files even if you do not have aPostScript printer.

The authors examine a number of packages that extend or modify LaTeX'sbasic illustration features, and present hundreds of examples ofuseful solutions to graphics and font problems. In addition topackages for general drawing, the book also presents specific toolsfor mathematicians, physicists, chemists, engineers, and peopleinterested in games and music typesetting.

All the packages and programs described in this book are freelyavailable in public software archives, and the source code for allexamples has been placed on CTAN, the TeX archives (details on page497). ... Read more

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Power Latex but not for the Faint of Heart
Need to do charts or graphics using latex? Then this is the book for you. It's the most advanced and complete book on Latex graphics that I've seen. If you would like to implement a reporting system that can draw charts using latex then this book is a must. Though I've not used latex in a while, I do remember that this one is not for the faint of heart. I do put it into the one of "must have" latex books.

Good Examples, quite incomplete
Many times in this book I've seen exactly what I want to do, but the LaTeX code is not always shown.I use this book as a hint to what can be done, and then I search on the web for LaTeX examples.I am fairly disappointed, and often find myself more frustrated after reading a section than I was before.

As an example (for those of you who have the book), Figure 4.1 is referenced as an example of how to use \multido, but the book does not have (or I could not find) the corresponding LaTeX.

Like the JC Penny catalogue:a wish book
I would have to hazard a guess that this is probably the most advanced LaTeX book on the market.It is lots of fun to look at with its many esoteric uses of LaTeX--typesetting bridge or chess game diagrams, musicnotation, optical illusions--in other words, stuff that I wish had enoughtime to learn but probably never will.However, I do find myself lookingat this book more than I initially imagined because it is quite useful onsubjects such as fonts and the "dvips" program.For these areas,you'll definitely find things to learn and use even if you aren't evergoing to typeset Mozart's lost symphony or fiddle with EncapsulatedPost-Script code at the primitive command level.

Almost Perfect
Nicely crafted guidebook to the graphics and fonts. PSTricks, color, chess, chemistry and music - helps you to typeset all of it, and more. My only complain is that the chapter on fonts is vague at places - because thebook tries to be so encyclopedic, I guess

LaTeX graphics bible
If you use LaTeX and are serious about including graphics in your documents, then this is the book to read. I've never seen a more complete and readable explanation of using graphics with LaTeX.

However, I don't recommend that raw beginners use this book. You really need some knowledge of LaTeX to understand what's going on. If you're an advanced user, THE LATEX GRAPHICS COMPANION is indispensible. ... Read more

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These conference papers on software engineering and technology include coverage of: telecommunications; software engineering; embedded systems; and languages and databases. ... Read more

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TEX has always been regarded as the most elegant and powerful system for computer typesetting. However, its widespread use beyond academia was hampered by its complexity. Recently, fairly good TEX implementations have come out for PC's putting TEX on the disks of many people including writers, designers, desktop publishers, and engineers. Consequently, interest in TEX has surged. What is needed at this point is a book that teaches step-by-step how to use TEX, illustrating each step with relevant examples. This is exactly what S. v. Bechtolsheim's book does. It is a tutorial and guide for the first-time user of TEX, as well as a reference for the more experienced "TEXpert." TEX in Practice will appear as a four volume set, starting with TEX in Practice, Volume 1: Basics; TEX in Practice, Volume 2: Paragraphs, Math and Fonts; TEX in Practice, Volume 3: Tokens, Macros; TEX in Practice, Volume 4: Output Routines, Tables. TEX in Practice will be an indispensable reference for the TEX community and a guide through the first step for the TEX novice. ... Read more

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This book shows how you can publish LaTeX documents on the Web. LaTeX was born of the scientist's need to prepare well-formatted information, particularly with pictures and mathematics included; the Web was born of the scientist's need to communicate information electronically. Until now, it has been difficult to find solutions that address both needs. HTML and today's Web browsers deal inadequately with the nontextual components of scientific documents. This book, at last, describes tools and techniques for transforming LaTeX sources into Web formats for electronic publication, and for transforming Web sources into LaTeX documents for optimal printing.You will learn how to:*Make full use of Acrobat with LaTeX *Convert existing documents to HTML or XML *Use mathematics in Web applications *Use LaTeX to prepare Web pages *Read and write simple XML/SGML *Produce high-quality printed pages from Web-hosted XML or HTML pagesYou will find practical descriptions of:*LaTeX2HTML, which uses Perl to interpret LaTeX source and generate HTML *TeX4ht, which redefines LaTeX's macros to generate HTML or XML *Browser plugins, such as techexplorer, that are able to interpret mathematical markup directly *Tools for authoring and interpreting XML *Tools for translating XML into various output formats, using Cascading Style Sheets, DSSSL, or XSL *Mathematical Markup Language (MathML)In addition to giving the Internet location of the software described in this book, the authors also provide a full, annotated catalogue of URLs for the standards and documentation relating to this fast-moving area. Many of the packages and programs described in this book are freely available in public software archives, and the source code for examples has been placed on CTAN, the TeX archives. 0201433117B04062001 ... Read more

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wasted paper.
I'd put this on my amazon wishlist since I saw it listed used for ~$2.Unfortunately, somebody spent the money to buy it for me new.As mentioned by another reviewer, this book is dated, and much of it stale and not worth reading.This is especially true if your interest is mathematics presentation content.

You'll find gross detail on:
- latex2html, a processor system that produces output that looks awful
- mathml from latex, a system that has little good browser support, and only primitive mathematics tooling.
- a big chapter on xml, something that has little interest to somebody producing document content.
- ...

Parts of the pdf chapter I found worthwhile, but a printed copy of that text doesn't justify the dead trees.Perhaps I'll hack that bit out of the book with a knife and recycle the rest.

out of date, not very useful
This book dates back to 1999, and since I'm writing this in 2006, that's seven years ago. Seven years is a long time for computer documentation. Virtually everything in the book is so far out of date that it's useless. The authors also didn't do a very good job of staying on topic; there are many long digressions that are neither interesting nor useful. In many cases, the authors merely give a broad-strokes outline of how to accomplish a particular task, or talk about several different approaches that have been taken by different people, without concluding with anything very helpful about how to actually accomplish the task.

very handy
I am an user of latex on linux for sometime now. The possibillities are uncountable with this excellent software. This book touches on the use of tex and latex for the web. Being not that experienced with all the possibillities this book is very usefull. It is a good introduction for converting latex and tex files to documents for the web. If you can grasp all the stuff in this book you will be able to easily prepare all kinds of documents for the web and in the end save a lot of time lost with programming html yourself.
Don't expect to much examples and user details, it has an excellent index and reference list to get you started.
There is a lot of math stuff in this book, so trying to get a lot of formula's on the web this will certainly be of help. I am not into math so a couple pages could be skipped.
Concluding: want to get started with latex and the web, want to make good documents for the web on a fast and good way, this is the book for you.

Almost definitely recommended
I have found this book almost as useful and interesting as the LaTeX Companion. I think that it gives enough information about sharing TeX and LaTeX texts on the web, but the chapters covering pdfTeX and SGML/XMLapplications could be more detailed.
I have found that there is anotherbig problem - with every day coming the information tends to get older andolder. I can fully recommend buying this book today, but I am not sure if Iwould do it once more after half a year has passed.

If you wereinterested in transforming TeX into PDF, I would recommend also the LaTeXGraphics Companion, or some other book introducing the problematic ofPostScript and PDF. ... Read more

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Provides the beginner with a simple and direct approach to typesetting mathematics with AMS-LATeX. Using examples, a formula gallery, sample files and templates, the text guides the reader through everything from setting up the systems to a systematic discussion of all aspects of AMS-LATeX. ... Read more

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TEX has always been regarded as the most elegant and powerful system for computer typesetting. However, its widespread use, beyond academia, was hampered by its complexity. Recently, fairly good TEX implementations have come out for PCs putting TEX on the desks of many people: writers, designers, desktop publishers, engineers, and consequently, the interest in TEX has surged. What is needed at this point is a book that teaches step-by-step how to use TEX, illustrating each step by meaningful examples. This is exactly what S.v. Bechtolsheim's book does. It is a tutorial and guide for the first-time users of TEX, as well as a reference for the most experienced "TEXpert." TEX in Practice will appear as a four volume set, starting with volume 1 Basics, followed by volume 2 Paragraphs, Math and Fonts, volume 3 Tokens, Macros and volume 4 Output Routines, Tables. TEX in Practice will be an indispensable reference for the TEX community and a guide through the first steps for the TEX novice. ... Read more

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Chapters: Bibdesk, Texniccenter, Beamer, Pgf/tikz, Jabref, Asymptote, Miktex, Kile, Latex2rtf. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: BibDesk is an open-source reference management software package for Mac OS X, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. It is primarily a BibTeX front-end for use with LaTeX, but also offers external database connectivity for importing, a variety of means for exporting, and capacity for linking to local documents. First launched publicly in 2002, BibDesk is under continuing development by various contributors via Sourceforge. The original developer was Michael McCracken, and much of the code has subsequently been written by Adam Maxwell and Christiaan Hofman. Also available directly from SourceForge, it is currently bundled with the MacTeX distribution of TeX. BibDesk offers a front-end for creating, editing, managing, and searching BibTeX databases. With integrated connectivity to external databases including PubMed, the U.S. Library of Congress, Web of Science, (and any other databases searchable via the Z39.50 or Entrez protocols), BibDesk enables one-click importing of references to articles and books listed in these databases and library catalogs. It also eases importing unformatted references from websites or documents without requiring that they be re-typed. BibDesk permits articles residing on a user's computer to be linked to their BibDesk database entries via drag-and-drop, and will auto-file linked PDFs or other copies of articles in desktop folder. It provides a variety of ways to annotate citations which variously do or do not affect the underlying BibTeX data. Though created to export in BibTeX format for use in LaTeX documents, BibDesk can also export citations forma...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=12124323 ... Read more