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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label books</title>
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<h3>Books on TeX and its relations</h3>
<p/>While Knuth’s book is the definitive reference for TeX, there are
other books covering TeX:
<dl>
<dt>The TeXbook<dd>by Donald Knuth (Addison-Wesley, 1984,
ISBN 0-201-13447-0, paperback ISBN 0-201-13448-9)
<dt>A Beginner’s Book of TeX<dd>by Raymond Seroul and Silvio Levy,
(Springer Verlag, 1992, ISBN 0-387-97562-4)
<dt>TeX by Example: A Beginner’s Guide<dd>by Arvind Borde
(Academic Press, 1992, ISBN 0-12-117650-9 — now out of print)
<dt>Introduction to TeX<dd>by Norbert Schwarz (Addison-Wesley,
1989, ISBN 0-201-51141-X — now out of print)
<dt>A Plain TeX Primer<dd>by Malcolm Clark (Oxford University
Press, 1993, ISBNs 0-198-53724-7 (hardback) and 0-198-53784-0
(paperback))
<dt>A TeX Primer for Scientists<dd>by Stanley Sawyer and Steven
Krantz (CRC Press, 1994, ISBN 0-849-37159-7)
<dt>TeX by Topic<dd>by Victor Eijkhout (Addison-Wesley, 1992,
ISBN 0-201-56882-9 — now out of print, but see
<a href="FAQ-ol-books.html">online books</a>; you can now buy a copy
printed, on demand, by Lulu — see
<a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/2555607">http://www.lulu.com/content/2555607</a>)
<dt>TeX for the Beginner<dd>by Wynter Snow (Addison-Wesley, 1992,
ISBN 0-201-54799-6)
<dt>TeX for the Impatient<dd>by Paul W. Abrahams, Karl Berry and
Kathryn A. Hargreaves (Addison-Wesley, 1990,
ISBN 0-201-51375-7 — now out of print, but see
<a href="FAQ-ol-books.html">online books</a>)
<dt>TeX in Practice<dd>by Stephan von Bechtolsheim (Springer
Verlag, 1993, 4 volumes, ISBN 3-540-97296-X for the set, or
Vol. 1: ISBN 0-387-97595-0,
Vol. 2: ISBN 0-387-97596-9,
Vol. 3: ISBN 0-387-97597-7, and
Vol. 4: ISBN 0-387-97598-5)
<dt>TeX: Starting from Square One<dd>
by Michael Doob (Springer
Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-540-56441-1 — now out of print)
<dt>The Joy of TeX<dd>by Michael D. Spivak (second edition,
AMS, 1990, ISBN 0-821-82997-1)
<dt>The Advanced TeXbook<dd>by David Salomon (Springer Verlag, 1995,
ISBN 0-387-94556-3)
</dl>
A collection of Knuth’s publications about typography is also available:
<dl>
<dt>Digital Typography<dd>by Donald Knuth (CSLI and Cambridge
University Press, 1999, ISBN 1-57586-011-2, paperback
ISBN 1-57586-010-4).
</dl>
and in late 2000, a “Millennium Boxed Set” of all
5 volumes of Knuth’s “Computers and Typesetting” series (about
TeX and Metafont) was published by Addison Wesley:
<dl>
<dt>Computers & Typesetting, Volumes A–E Boxed Set<dd>by Donald Knuth
(Addison-Wesley, 2001, ISBN 0-201-73416-8).
</dl>
For LaTeX, see:
<dl>
<dt>LaTeX, a Document Preparation System<dd>by Leslie Lamport
(second edition, Addison Wesley, 1994, ISBN 0-201-52983-1)
<dt>Guide to LaTeX<dd>Helmut Kopka and Patrick W. Daly (fourth
edition, Addison-Wesley, 2004, ISBN 0-321-17385-6)
<dt>The LaTeX Companion<dd>by Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens,
Johannes Braams, David Carlisle and Chris Rowley (second edition,
Addison-Wesley, 2004, ISBN-10 0-201-36299-6, ISBN-13 978-0-201-36299-2)
<dt>The LaTeX Graphics Companion:<dd>
<em>Illustrating documents with TeX and PostScript</em> by Michel
Goossens, Sebastian Rahtz, Frank Mittelbach, Denis Roegel and
Herbert Voß (second edition, Addison-Wesley, 2007,
ISBN-10 0-321-50892-0, ISBN-13 978-0-321-50892-8)
<dt>The LaTeX Web Companion:<dd>
<em>Integrating TeX, HTML and XML</em> by Michel
Goossens and Sebastian Rahtz (Addison-Wesley, 1999, ISBN 0-201-43311-7)
<dt>TeX Unbound:<dd>
<em>LaTeX and TeX strategies for fonts, graphics, and more</em>
by Alan Hoenig (Oxford University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-19-509685-1
hardback, ISBN 0-19-509686-X paperback)
<dt>Math into LaTeX:<dd><em>An Introduction to LaTeX and AMSLaTeX</em>
by George Grätzer (third edition Birkhäuser and Springer Verlag,
2000, ISBN 0-8176-4431-9, ISBN 3-7643-4131-9)
<dt>Digital Typography Using LaTeX<dd>Incorporating some
multilingual aspects, and use of <a href="FAQ-omegaleph.html">Omega</a>, by
Apostolos Syropoulos, Antonis Tsolomitis and Nick Sofroniou
(Springer, 2003, ISBN 0-387-95217-9).
<p/> A list of errata for the first printing is available from:
<a href="http://www.springer-ny.com/catalog/np/jan99np/0-387-98708-8.html">http://www.springer-ny.com/catalog/np/jan99np/0-387-98708-8.html</a>
<dt>First Steps in LaTeX<dd>by George Grätzer (Birkhäuser, 1999,
ISBN 0-8176-4132-7)
<dt>LaTeX: Line by Line:<dd>
<em>Tips and Techniques for Document Processing</em>
by Antoni Diller (second edition, John Wiley & Sons,
1999, ISBN 0-471-97918-X)
<dt>LaTeX for Linux:<dd><em>A Vade Mecum</em>
by Bernice Sacks Lipkin (Springer-Verlag, 1999,
ISBN 0-387-98708-8, second printing)
</dl>
A sample of George Grätzer’s “Math into LaTeX”, in Adobe
Acrobat format, and example files
for the three LaTeX Companions, and for
Grätzer’s “First Steps in LaTeX”, are all available on
CTAN.
<p/>There’s a nicely-presented list of of “recommended books” to be had
on the web: <a href="http://www.macrotex.net/texbooks/">http://www.macrotex.net/texbooks/</a>
<p/>The list of Metafont books is rather short:
<dl>
<dt>The Metafontbook<dd>by Donald Knuth (Addison Wesley, 1986,
ISBN 0-201-13445-4, ISBN 0-201-52983-1 paperback)
</dl>
Alan Hoenig’s ‘<i>TeX Unbound</i>’ includes some discussion and
examples of using Metafont.
<p/>A book covering a wide range of topics (including installation and
maintenance) is:
<dl>
<dt>Making TeX Work<dd>by Norman Walsh (O’Reilly and Associates,
Inc, 1994, ISBN 1-56592-051-1)
</dl>
The book is decidedly dated, and is now out of print, but a copy is
available via <code>sourceforge</code> and on CTAN,
and we list it under “<a href="FAQ-ol-books.html">online books</a>”.
<p/><p/>This list only covers books in English: notices of new books, or
warnings that books are now out of print are always welcome. However,
this FAQ does <em>not</em> carry reviews of current published material.
<dl>
<dt><tt><i>Examples for First Steps in LaTeX</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/examples/FirstSteps.zip">info/examples/FirstSteps</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/examples/FirstSteps/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>Examples for LaTeX Companion</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/examples/tlc2.zip">info/examples/tlc2</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/examples/tlc2/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>Examples for LaTeX Graphics Companion</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/examples/lgc.zip">info/examples/lgc</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/examples/lgc/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>Examples for LaTeX Web Companion</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/examples/lwc.zip">info/examples/lwc</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/examples/lwc/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>Sample of Math into LaTeX</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/info/mil/mil.pdf">info/mil/mil.pdf</a>
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