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-% This is part of the book TeX for the Impatient.
-% Copyright (C) 2003 Paul W. Abrahams, Kathryn A. Hargreaves, Karl Berry.
-% See file fdl.tex for copying conditions.
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-{\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.
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-\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.
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-\line{\it Deerfield, Massachusetts\hfil\rm P.\thinspace W.\thinspace A.}
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-
-\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}.
-
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