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- <p><span class="bold"><b>About this Book</b></span></p>
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- <p>This is an <span class="emphasis"><em>alpha</em></span>
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- <p>Besides maintaining a number of TeX and font-related
- resources on the Net, Norm enjoys bicycling, herpetology,
- prestidigitation, and browsing record and book stores. Norm
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- technical topics, breathing personality and life into
- potentially dry subjects. <span class="sc">UNIX</span> and
- its attendant programs can be unruly beasts. Nutshell
- Handbooks® help you tame them.</p>
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- <p>The animal featured on the cover of <i>Making TeX Work</i>
- is the European garden spider. Garden spiders are orb
- weavers, known for their intricate orb-shaped webs. Web
- building is a complex process: support lines are constructed
- first; then the radial lines; and finally the spiraling
- strands are spun from the center outward. Without training
- from adults, even the tiniest just-hatched spiderlings are
- able to spin silk and weave webs. Another orb weaver, <span
- class="emphasis"><em>nephila</em></span>, builds an extremely
- thick and strong web, up to eight feet in diameter. People in
- Southeast Asia have found an interesting use for this
- spider's web&#8212;they bend a pliable stick into a loop and
- pass it through the large web, resulting in a surprisingly
- strong and effective fishing net!</p>
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- <p>Spiders produce silk from glands called spinnerets. Orb
- weavers can have three or four pairs of these glands, each
- producing different textures of silk: non-stick silk for the
- radial web lines, and sticky silk for the spiraling strands.
- Some spiders even produce an ultraviolet silk to attract
- insects. Spider silk, a super protein that hardens as it is
- stretched from the spinnerets, may look delicate but it is
- unbelievably tough. The relative tension necessary to break
- it is far greater than for steel.</p>
-
- <p>When finished with the construction of its web, the garden
- spider will often go to the center, hang upside down, and
- wait for a flying or jumping insect to become ensnared.
- Having poor eyesight, orb weavers rely on a highly-developed
- sense of touch. When an insect because caught in th web and
- struggles, the spider is alerted by the vibrations. It rushes
- tout to secure its prey, usually wrapping it in silk. A
- poison is injected into the victim, paralyzing it and
- converting the contents of its body to a liquid. The spider
- returns later to insert its tube-like fangs and suck up its
- meal.</p>
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- <p>The garden spider's profound sense of touch has another
- purpose: it provides male spiders with a channel to
- communicate with females. Before climbing onto the female's
- web, the male taps out a special message. Then he cautiously
- crawls toward his mate&#8212;a perilous task, for he is
- always in danger of being mistaken for prey. It is commonly
- thought that the female spider kills and eats the male after
- mating, but this is an exaggeration. The male, who stops
- eating during his mate-hunting ordeal, generally dies of
- malnourishment and exhaustion.</p>
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- <p>Spiders are similar to, but not the same as insects. They
- belong to the class <span
- class="emphasis"><em>Arachnida</em></span>, named after
- Arachne, a maiden in Greek mythology. She defeated the
- goddess Athena in a weaving contest. In a fury of anger,
- Athena destroyed Arachne's weaving and beat the girl about
- the head. In utter disgrace, Arachne hanged herself. A
- regretful Athena changed Arachne into a spider so that she
- could weave forever.</p>
-
- <p>While they are certainly not going to win any popularity
- contests, spiders' insect-eating habits are extremely helpful
- to humans. Every year, billions of spiders do away with a
- large number of disease-carrying and crop-destroying insects.
- If every spider ate just one a day for a year, those insects,
- piled in one spot, would weigh as much as 50 million people.
- Spiders are, by far, the most important predator of insects
- in our world.</p>
-
- <p>Edie Freedman designed this cover and the entire UNIX
- bestiary that appears on other Nutshell Handbooks. The beasts
- themselves are adapted from nineteenth century engravings
- from the Dover Pictorial Archive. The cover layout was
- produced with QuarkXPress 3.1 using the ITC Garamond
- font.</p>
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- <p>The inside layout was designed by Edie Freedman and
- implemented by Norm Walsh in TeX using the ITC Garamond font
- family. The figures (except those in chapter 6) were created
- in Aldus Freehand 3.1 by Chris Reilley. The colophon was
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