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This version may contain glaring - inconsistencies, missing sections, and other misfeatures - indicative of a “work in progress”.</p> - - <p><span class="bold"><b>About the Author</b></span></p> - - <p>Norm Walsh is a Production Tools Specialist at O'Reilly - and Associates' Cambridge office. Before Norm joined ORA, he - was a research assistant at the University of Massachusetts, - Amherst where he earned his master's degree in computer - science.</p> - - <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 - lives in Boxborough, MA with his wife Deborah, two cats, a - box turtle, two toads, and two frogs.</p> - - <p><span class="bold"><b>Colophon</b></span></p> - - <p>Our look is the result of reader comments, our own - experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels.</p> - - <p>Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to - 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> - - <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—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> - - <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> - - <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—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> - - <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> - - <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. 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