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Books on TeX and its relations

While Knuth's book is the definitive reference for TeX, there are other books covering TeX:

The TeXbook
by Donald Knuth (Addison-Wesley, 1984, ISBN 0-201-13447-0, paperback ISBN 0-201-13448-9)
A Beginner's Book of TeX
by Raymond Seroul and Silvio Levy, (Springer Verlag, 1992, ISBN 0-387-97562-4)
Introduction to TeX
by Norbert Schwarz (Addison-Wesley, 1989, ISBN 0-201-51141-X)
A Plain TeX Primer
by Malcolm Clark (Oxford University Press, 1993, ISBNs 0-198-53724-7 (hardback) and 0-198-53784-0 (paperback))
TeX by Topic
by Victor Eijkhout (Addison-Wesley, 1992, ISBN 0-201-56882-9)
TeX for the Beginner
by Wynter Snow (Addison-Wesley, 1992, ISBN 0-201-54799-6)
TeX for the Impatient
by Paul W. Abrahams, Karl Berry and Kathryn A. Hargreaves (Addison-Wesley, 1990, ISBN 0-201-51375-7)
TeX in Practice
by Stephan von Bechtolsheim (Springer Verlag, 1993, 4 volumes, ISBN 3-540-97296-X for the set, or Vol. 1: 0-387-97595-0, Vol. 2: 0-387-97596-9, Vol. 3: 0-387-97597-7, and Vol. 4: 0-387-97598-5)
TeX: Starting from Square One
by Michael Doob (Springer Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-540-56441-1)
The Advanced TeXbook
by David Salomon (Springer Verlag, 1995, ISBN 0-387-94556-3)
For LaTeX, see:
LaTeX, a Document Preparation System
by Leslie Lamport (second edition, Addison Wesley, 1994, ISBN 0-201-15790-X)
A guide to LaTeX2e
Helmut Kopka and Patrick W. Daly (second edition, Addison-Wesley, 1995, ISBN 0-201-42777-X)
The LaTeX Companion
by Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, and Alexander Samarin (Addison-Wesley, 1993, ISBN 0-201-54199-8)
The LaTeX Graphics Companion
Illustrating documents with TeX and PostScript by Michel Goossens, Sebastian Rahtz and Frank Mittelbach (Addison-Wesley, 1997, ISBN 0-201-85469-4)
LaTeX Notes:
Practical Tips for Preparing Technical Documents by J. Kenneth Shultis (Prentice Hall, 1994, ISBN 0-131-20973-6)
LaTeX Line by Line
by Antoni Diller (John Wiley & Sons, 1993, ISBN 0-471-93471-2)
LaTeX for Scientists and Engineers
by David J. Buerger (McGraw-Hill, 1990, ISBN 0-070-08845-4)
Math into TeX:
A Simplified Introduction using AMS-LaTeX by George Grätzer (Birkhäuser, 1993, ISBN 0-817-63637-4, or, in Germany, ISBN 3-764-33637-4)
Math into LaTeX:
An Introduction to LaTeX and AMS-LaTeX by George Grätzer (Birkhäuser, 1996, ISBN 0-817-63805-9)
Of the list, Lamport's, the two LaTeX Companions, Kopka and Daly's, and Grätzer's ``Math into LaTeX'' cover LaTeX2e. A sample of the last, in Adobe Acrobat format, is also available (info/mil/mil.pdf).

The list for METAFONT is rather short:

The METAFONTbook
by Donald Knuth (Addison Wesley, 1986, ISBN 0-201-13445-4)
A book covering a wide range of topics (including installation and maintenance) is:
Making TeX Work
by Norman Walsh (O'Reilly and Associates, Inc, 1994, ISBN 1-56592-051-1)

This list only covers books in English: UK TUG cannot hope to maintain a list of books in languages other than our own.


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