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Abrahams, Karl Berry and - Kathryn A. Hargreaves (Addison-Wesley, 1990, - ISBN 0-201-51375-7 — 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 — 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’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 “Millennium Boxed Set” of all -5 volumes of Knuth’s “Computers and Typesetting” series (about -TeX and Metafont) was published by Addison Wesley: -<dl> -<dt>Computers & Typesetting, Volumes A–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 Voß (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 Grätzer (third edition Birkhäuser 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 Grätzer (Birkhäuser, 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 & 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 Grätzer’s “Math into LaTeX”, in Adobe -Acrobat format, and example files - -for the three LaTeX Companions, and for -Grätzer’s “First Steps in LaTeX”, are all available on -CTAN. -<p/>There’s a nicely-presented list of of “recommended books” 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’s ‘<i>TeX Unbound</i>’ 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’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 “<a href="FAQ-ol-books.html">online books</a>”. -<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> |