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-<head>
-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label books</title>
-</head><body>
-<h3>Books on TeX and its relations</h3>
-<p/>While Knuth&#8217;s book is the definitive reference for TeX, there are
-other books covering TeX:
-<dl>
-<dt>The TeXbook<dd>by Donald Knuth (Addison-Wesley, 1984,
- ISBN 0-201-13447-0, paperback ISBN 0-201-13448-9)
-<dt>A Beginner&#8217;s Book of TeX<dd>by Raymond Seroul and Silvio Levy,
- (Springer Verlag, 1992, ISBN 0-387-97562-4)
-<dt>TeX by Example: A Beginner&#8217;s Guide<dd>by Arvind Borde
- (Academic Press, 1992, ISBN 0-12-117650-9 &#8212; now out of print)
-<dt>Introduction to TeX<dd>by Norbert Schwarz (Addison-Wesley,
- 1989, ISBN 0-201-51141-X &#8212; now out of print)
-<dt>A Plain TeX Primer<dd>by Malcolm Clark (Oxford University
- Press, 1993, ISBNs 0-198-53724-7 (hardback) and 0-198-53784-0
- (paperback))
-<dt>A TeX Primer for Scientists<dd>by Stanley Sawyer and Steven
- Krantz (CRC Press, 1994, ISBN 0-849-37159-7)
-<dt>TeX by Topic<dd>by Victor Eijkhout (Addison-Wesley, 1992,
- ISBN 0-201-56882-9 &#8212; now out of print, but see
- <a href="FAQ-ol-books.html">online books</a>; you can now buy a copy
- printed, on demand, by Lulu &#8212; see
- <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/2555607">http://www.lulu.com/content/2555607</a>)
-<dt>TeX for the Beginner<dd>by Wynter Snow (Addison-Wesley, 1992,
- ISBN 0-201-54799-6)
-<dt>TeX for the Impatient<dd>by Paul W. Abrahams, Karl Berry and
- Kathryn A. Hargreaves (Addison-Wesley, 1990,
- ISBN 0-201-51375-7 &#8212; now out of print, but see
- <a href="FAQ-ol-books.html">online books</a>)
-<dt>TeX in Practice<dd>by Stephan von Bechtolsheim (Springer
- Verlag, 1993, 4 volumes, ISBN 3-540-97296-X for the set, or
-
- Vol. 1: ISBN 0-387-97595-0,
- Vol. 2: ISBN 0-387-97596-9,
- Vol. 3: ISBN 0-387-97597-7, and
- Vol. 4: ISBN 0-387-97598-5)
-
-<dt>TeX: Starting from Square One<dd>
- by Michael Doob (Springer
- Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-540-56441-1 &#8212; now out of print)
-<dt>The Joy of TeX<dd>by Michael D. Spivak (second edition,
- AMS, 1990, ISBN 0-821-82997-1)
-<dt>The Advanced TeXbook<dd>by David Salomon (Springer Verlag, 1995,
- ISBN 0-387-94556-3)
-</dl>
-A collection of Knuth&#8217;s publications about typography is also available:
-<dl>
-<dt>Digital Typography<dd>by Donald Knuth (CSLI and Cambridge
- University Press, 1999, ISBN 1-57586-011-2, paperback
- ISBN 1-57586-010-4).
-</dl>
-and in late 2000, a &#8220;Millennium Boxed Set&#8221; of all
-5 volumes of Knuth&#8217;s &#8220;Computers and Typesetting&#8221; series (about
-TeX and Metafont) was published by Addison Wesley:
-<dl>
-<dt>Computers &#38; Typesetting, Volumes A&#8211;E Boxed Set<dd>by Donald Knuth
- (Addison-Wesley, 2001, ISBN 0-201-73416-8).
-</dl>
-
-For LaTeX, see:
-<dl>
-<dt>LaTeX, a Document Preparation System<dd>by Leslie Lamport
- (second edition, Addison Wesley, 1994, ISBN 0-201-52983-1)
-<dt>Guide to LaTeX<dd>Helmut Kopka and Patrick W. Daly (fourth
- edition, Addison-Wesley, 2004, ISBN 0-321-17385-6)
-<dt>The LaTeX Companion<dd>by Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens,
- Johannes Braams, David Carlisle and Chris Rowley (second edition,
- Addison-Wesley, 2004, ISBN-10 0-201-36299-6, ISBN-13 978-0-201-36299-2)
-<dt>The LaTeX Graphics Companion:<dd>
- <em>Illustrating documents with TeX and PostScript</em> by Michel
- Goossens, Sebastian Rahtz, Frank Mittelbach, Denis Roegel and
- Herbert Vo&#223; (second edition, Addison-Wesley, 2007,
- ISBN-10 0-321-50892-0, ISBN-13 978-0-321-50892-8)
-<dt>The LaTeX Web Companion:<dd>
- <em>Integrating TeX, HTML and XML</em> by Michel
- Goossens and Sebastian Rahtz (Addison-Wesley, 1999, ISBN 0-201-43311-7)
-<dt>TeX Unbound:<dd>
- <em>LaTeX and TeX strategies for fonts, graphics, and more</em>
- by Alan Hoenig (Oxford University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-19-509685-1
- hardback, ISBN 0-19-509686-X paperback)
-<dt>Math into LaTeX:<dd><em>An Introduction to LaTeX and AMSLaTeX</em>
- by George Gr&#228;tzer (third edition Birkh&#228;user and Springer Verlag,
- 2000, ISBN 0-8176-4431-9, ISBN 3-7643-4131-9)
-
-
-
-<dt>Digital Typography Using LaTeX<dd>Incorporating some
- multilingual aspects, and use of <a href="FAQ-omegaleph.html">Omega</a>, by
- Apostolos Syropoulos, Antonis Tsolomitis and Nick Sofroniou
- (Springer, 2003, ISBN 0-387-95217-9).
-<p/> A list of errata for the first printing is available from:
- <a href="http://www.springer-ny.com/catalog/np/jan99np/0-387-98708-8.html">http://www.springer-ny.com/catalog/np/jan99np/0-387-98708-8.html</a>
-<dt>First Steps in LaTeX<dd>by George Gr&#228;tzer (Birkh&#228;user, 1999,
- ISBN 0-8176-4132-7)
-<dt>LaTeX: Line by Line:<dd>
- <em>Tips and Techniques for Document Processing</em>
- by Antoni Diller (second edition, John Wiley &#38; Sons,
- 1999, ISBN 0-471-97918-X)
-<dt>LaTeX for Linux:<dd><em>A Vade Mecum</em>
- by Bernice Sacks Lipkin (Springer-Verlag, 1999,
- ISBN 0-387-98708-8, second printing)
-</dl>
-A sample of George Gr&#228;tzer&#8217;s &#8220;Math into LaTeX&#8221;, in Adobe
-Acrobat format, and example files
-
-for the three LaTeX Companions, and for
-Gr&#228;tzer&#8217;s &#8220;First Steps in LaTeX&#8221;, are all available on
-CTAN.
-<p/>There&#8217;s a nicely-presented list of of &#8220;recommended books&#8221; to be had
-on the web: <a href="http://www.macrotex.net/texbooks/">http://www.macrotex.net/texbooks/</a>
-<p/>The list of Metafont books is rather short:
-<dl>
-<dt>The Metafontbook<dd>by Donald Knuth (Addison Wesley, 1986,
- ISBN 0-201-13445-4, ISBN 0-201-52983-1 paperback)
-</dl>
-Alan Hoenig&#8217;s &#8216;<i>TeX Unbound</i>&#8217; includes some discussion and
-examples of using Metafont.
-<p/>A book covering a wide range of topics (including installation and
-maintenance) is:
-<dl>
-<dt>Making TeX Work<dd>by Norman Walsh (O&#8217;Reilly and Associates,
- Inc, 1994, ISBN 1-56592-051-1)
-</dl>
-The book is decidedly dated, and is now out of print, but a copy is
-available via <code>sourceforge</code> and on CTAN,
-and we list it under &#8220;<a href="FAQ-ol-books.html">online books</a>&#8221;.
-<p/><p/>This list only covers books in English: notices of new books, or
-warnings that books are now out of print are always welcome. However,
-this FAQ does <em>not</em> carry reviews of current published material.
-<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>Examples for First Steps in LaTeX</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/examples/FirstSteps.zip">info/examples/FirstSteps</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/examples/FirstSteps/">browse the directory</a>)
-<dt><tt><i>Examples for LaTeX Companion</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/examples/tlc2.zip">info/examples/tlc2</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/examples/tlc2/">browse the directory</a>)
-<dt><tt><i>Examples for LaTeX Graphics Companion</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/examples/lgc.zip">info/examples/lgc</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/examples/lgc/">browse the directory</a>)
-<dt><tt><i>Examples for LaTeX Web Companion</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/examples/lwc.zip">info/examples/lwc</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/examples/lwc/">browse the directory</a>)
-
-<dt><tt><i>Sample of Math into LaTeX</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/mil/mil.pdf">info/mil/mil.pdf</a>
-</dl>
-<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=books">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=books</a>
-</body>