Reference documents
For TeX primitive commands a rather nice
quick reference booklet,
by John W. Shipman, is available; it’s arranged in the same way as the
TeXbook. By contrast, you can view David Bausum’s
list of TeX primitives
alphabetically or arranged by “family”. Either way, the list has a
link for each control sequence, that leads you to a detailed
description, which includes page references to the TeXbook.
There doesn’t seem to be a reference that takes in Plain TeX as
well as the primitive commands.
An interesting LaTeX “cheat sheet” is available from CTAN:
it’s a list of (more or less) everything you ‘ought to’ remember, for
basic LaTeX use. (It’s laid out very compactly for printing on N.\
American ‘letter’; printed on ISO A4, using Adobe
Acrobat’s “shrink to fit”, it strains aged eyes…)
For command organised references to LaTeX, Karl Berry (et
al)’s
LaTeX reference manual is (to
an extent) work in progress, but is generally reliable.
The reference provided by the Emerson Center of Emory
University),
LaTeXe help
also looks good.
- Cheat sheet
- info/latexcheat/latexcheat/latexsheet.pdf; catalogue entry
- LaTeX reference manual
- info/latex2e-help-texinfo (or browse the directory); catalogue entry
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