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Hargreaves, Karl Berry. -% See file fdl.tex for copying conditions. - -\input macros -\frontchapter{Preface} - -{\tighten -Donald Knuth's \TeX, a computerized typesetting system, -provides nearly everything -needed for high-quality typesetting of mathematical -notations as well as of ordinary text. -It is particularly notable for its flexibility, its superb hyphenation, and its -ability to choose aesthetically satisfying line breaks. -Because -of its extraordinary capabilities, \TeX\ has become the leading typesetting -system for mathematics, science, and engineering and has been adopted as -a standard by the American Mathematical Society. A companion program, -^{\Metafont}, -can construct arbitrary letterforms including, in particular, any symbols that -might be needed in mathematics. -Both \TeX\ and \Metafont\ are widely available within the -scientific and engineering community and have been implemented on a -variety of computers. -\TeX\ isn't perfect---it lacks integrated support for graphics, and -some effects such as ^{revision bars} are very difficult to produce---% -but these drawbacks are far outweighed by its advantages. -\par} - -\thisbook\/ is intended to serve scientists, mathematicians, and -technical typists for whom \TeX\ is a useful tool rather than a primary -interest, as well as computer people who have a strong interest in \TeX\ -for its own sake. We also intend it to serve both newcomers to \TeX\ -and those who are already familiar with \TeX. We assume that our -readers are comfortable working with computers and that they want to get -the information they need as quickly as possible. Our aim is to provide -that information clearly, concisely, and accessibly. - -{\tighten This book therefore provides a bright searchlight, a stout -walking-stick, and detailed maps for exploring and using \TeX. It will -enable you to master \TeX\ at a rapid pace through inquiry and -experiment, but it will not lead you by the hand through the entire -\TeX\ system. Our approach is to provide you with a handbook for \TeX\ -that makes it easy for you to retrieve whatever information you need. -We explain both the full repertoire of \TeX\ commands and the concepts -that underlie them. You won't have to waste your time plowing through -material that you neither need nor want. \par} - -In the early sections we also provide you with enough orientation so -that you can get started if you haven't used \TeX\ before. We assume -that you have access to a \TeX\ implementation and that you know how to -use a text editor, but we don't assume much else about your background. -Because this book is organized for ready reference, you'll continue to -find it useful as you become more familiar with \TeX. If you prefer to -start with a carefully guided tour, we recommend that you first read -Knuth's ^{\texbook} (see \xrefpg{resources} for a citation), passing -over the ``dangerous bend'' sections, and then return to this book for -additional information and for reference as you start to use \TeX. (The -dangerous bend sections of \texbook\ cover advanced topics.) - -The structure of \TeX\ is really quite simple: a \TeX\ input document -consists of ordinary text interspersed with commands that give \TeX\ -further instructions on how to typeset your document. Things like math -formulas contain many such commands, while expository text contains -relatively few of them. - -The time-consuming part of learning \TeX\ is learning the commands and -the concepts underlying their descriptions. Thus we've devoted most of -the book to defining and explaining the commands and the concepts. -We've also provided examples showing \TeX\ typeset output and the -corresponding input, hints on solving common problems, information about -error messages, and so forth. We've supplied extensive cross-references -by page number and a complete index. - -We've arranged the descriptions of the commands so that you can look -them up either by function or alphabetically. The functional -arrangement is what you need when you know what you want to do but you -don't know what command might do it for you. The alphabetical arrangement -is what you need when you know the name of a command but you don't know exactly -what it does. - -We must caution you that we haven't tried to provide a complete -definition of \TeX. For that you'll need ^{\texbook}, which is the -original source of information on \TeX. \texbook\ also contains a lot -of information about the fine points of using \TeX, particularly on the -subject of composing math formulas. We recommend it highly. - -In 1989 Knuth made a major revision to \TeX\ in order to adapt it to -$8$-bit character sets, needed to support typesetting for languages -other than English. The description of \TeX\ in this book incorporates -that revision (see \xref{newtex}). - -{\tighten You may be using a specialized form of \TeX\ such as ^{\LaTeX} -or ^{\AMSTeX} (see \xref{resources}). Although these specialized forms -are self-contained, you may still want to use some of the facilities of -\TeX\ itself now and then in order to gain the finer control that only -\TeX\ can provide. This book can help you to learn what you need to -know about those facilities without having to learn about a lot of other -things that you aren't interested~in. \par} - -Two of us (K.A.H. and K.B.) were generously supported by the -University of Massachusetts at Boston during the preparation of this -book. In particular, Rick Martin kept the machines running, and -Robert~A. Morris and Betty O'Neil made the machines available. Paul -English of Interleaf helped us produce proofs for a cover design. - -We wish to thank the reviewers of our book: Richard Furuta of the -University of Maryland, John Gourlay of Arbortext, Inc., Jill Carter -Knuth, and Richard Rubinstein of the Digital Equipment Corporation. We -took to heart their perceptive and unsparing criticisms of the original -manuscript, and the book has benefitted greatly from their insights. - -We are particularly grateful to our editor, Peter Gordon of -Addison-Wesley. This book was really his idea, and throughout its -development he has been a source of encouragement and valuable -advice. We thank his assistant at Addison-Wesley, Helen Goldstein, for -her help in so many ways, and Loren Stevens of Addison-Wesley for her -skill and energy in shepherding this book through the production -process. Were it not for our copyeditor, Janice Byer, a number of small -but irritating errors would have remained in this book. We appreciate -her sensitivity and taste in correcting what needed to be corrected -while leaving what did not need to be corrected alone. Finally, we wish -to thank Jim Byrnes of Prometheus Inc. for making this collaboration -possible by introducing us to each other. -\vskip1.5\baselineskip - -\line{\it Deerfield, Massachusetts\hfil\rm P.\thinspace W.\thinspace A.} -\line{\it Manomet, Massachusetts\hfil\rm K.\thinspace A.\thinspace H., - K.\thinspace B.} - -\vskip2\baselineskip - -\noindent {\bf Preface to the free edition:} This book was originally -published in 1990 by Addison-Wesley. In 2003, it was declared out of -print and Addison-Wesley generously reverted all rights to us, the -authors. We decided to make the book available in source form, under -the GNU Free Documentation License, as our way of supporting the -community which supported the book in the first place. See the -copyright page for more information on the licensing. - -The illustrations which were part of the original book are not included -here. Some of the fonts have also been changed; now, only -freely-available fonts are used. We left the cropmarks and galley -information on the pages, to serve as identification. An old version of -Eplain was used to produce it; see the {\tt eplain.tex} file for -details. - -We don't plan to make any further changes or additions to the book -ourselves, except for correction of any outright errors reported to us, -and perhaps inclusion of the illustrations. - -Our distribution of the book is at {\tt -ftp://tug.org/tex/impatient}. You can reach us by email at {\tt -impatient@tug.org}. - -\pagebreak -\byebye |