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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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