The joy of TeX: A gourmet guide to typesetting with the AMS-TeX maro package

331 Pages·2004·3.36 MB·English

by  Spivak M.D.

TEX and AMS-TEX are trademarks of the American Mathematical Society.
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Spivak, Michael David.
The joy of TeX, second ed.: a gourmet guide to typesetting with
the AMS-TeX macro package / M.D. Spivak.
p. cm.
1. TeX (Computer system) 2. Mathematics printing.
3. Computerized typesetting. I. Title.
Z253.4.T47S673 1990 90-1082
686.2' 25445369--dc20 CIP
ISBN 0-8218-2997-1 (alk. paper)
Reprinted with corrections by the American Mathematical Society, 2004.
Copyright (cid:13)c 1990 by the American Mathematical Society. All rights reserved.
Previous editions copyright (cid:13)c 1982, 1983, 1986 by the American Mathematical
Society.
All rights reserved. Any material in this guide may be reproduced or duplicated
for personal or educational use.
For My Mother

CONTENTS
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi, xiii
Personal Pronoun Pronouncement . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
Introduction. On Advanced Typesetting . . . . . . . . . xvii
Part 1. Starters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
0. Getting Acquainted; A Key Chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Keys availableon the keyboard
1. Learning TEX’s Lingo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Ordinary text and control sequences
2. Printers Do It With All Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Changing fonts
3. Your First TEX Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Running a file through TEX
4. TEX’s Erroneous Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Error messages, and how to respond to them
5. Spaces That Separate, Ties That Bind . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Subtleties of spacing and line breaking
6. Doing It With E´lan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Special symbols and accents
Part 2. Main Courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
7. TEX’s Brand Of Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Mathematical formulas in text
8. Lousy Breaks? Try An Artful Display . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Displayed formulas
9. The 2nd Level Of Complexity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Superscripts and subscripts
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10. Our Problems Mount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Fractions, binomial coefficients, etc.
11. Bene(cid:1)fitti(cid:2)ng From TEX’s Largess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
, and other “large operators”
12. Creating Your Own Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Controlling spacing in mathematical formulas
13. Fascinating Things That Expand By Themselves . . . . . . . . 79
Delimiters and other variable size symbols
14. A Roman Orgy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Roman type in formulas
15. Keeping Them In Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Numbering formulas and aligning equations in a display
16. Too Much Of A Good Thing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Breaking formulas that are too long
17. Sophisticated Positions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Matrices
Part 3. Sauces & Pickles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
18. Practicing Self Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Defining new control sequences
19. EX-Rated Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
A dictionary of special TEXniques
Appendices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
A. The AMS Preprint Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
B. Answers To All The Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
C. Bibliographies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
D. Comparison With ‘plain’ TEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
E. Deficient Keyboards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
F. Esoteric Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
G. Further Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
H. {TEX Users} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
I . Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
. Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Preface to the Second Edition
The Joy of TEX is the manual for AMS-TEX, an extension of TEX, Donald
Knuth’s revolutionary program for typesetting technical material. AMS-TEX
wasdesignedtosimplifytheinputofmathematicalmaterialinparticularandto
format the output according to any of various preset style specifications. This
manual is useful both for the technical typist and for scientists preparing their
ownmanuscripts. Exercisessprinkledgenerouslythrougheachchapterencourage
the reader to sit down at a terminal and learn through experimentation.
The first two parts of the manual “Starters” and “Main Courses,” teach the
readerhowtotypesetmostnormallyencounteredtextandmathematics. “Sauces
and Pickles,” the third section, treats more exotic problems and includes a
60-page dictionary of special TEXniques. Scientists and experienced technical
typists will readily appreciate that AMS-TEX gives them easy control over the
appearanceofapageoftechnicalcopy. Descriptionsoftheconventionsofmath-
ematicaltypographywillhelpthenovicetechnicaltypist. Appendiceslisthandy
summaries of frequently used and more esoteric symbols, as well as answers to
the exercises.
This second printing of the second edition of Joy has been updated to re-
flect the changes introduced in Version 2.1 of the AMS-TEX macro package. In
Version 2.0 Dr. Spivak made many of the error and help messages clearer, and
many bugs that surfaced in special cases were eliminated. He made refinements
in some of the macros and changes to conserve memory space. In addition, he
made access to fonts other than those defined in plain TEX easier.
At the same time that Dr. Spivak was making all the technical changes in
AMS-TEX, the Society’s Technical Support Staff made extensive changes in the
AMS-TEX’s preprint style to allow for many optional formatting features and
provide users much greater flexibility. Among the new features are styles for
books, in addition to journal articles, running heads, alternate page sizes, and
tables of contents. Inthe first edition of Joy, many of the preprint featureswere
explainedinChapter7. InthiseditionChapter7hasbeenmovedtoAppendixA.
The Technical Support Staff has revised Appendix A so that it now serves as a
complete guide to all the options available in the Version 2.1 preprint style.
American Mathematical Society
October 1991
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