An essential guide that saves time and reduces frustration when preparing documents

A TeX Primer for Scientists

Authors - Stanley A. Sawyer and Steven G. Krantz

Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri

Description

This concise, straightforward guide provides an all-purpose introduction to writing and preparing papers, reports, articles, and books with TeX. Scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and technical staff will discover how easy it is to clearly and quickly perform all the necessary tasks required to prepare equations and text. The first half of the book is devoted to explaining how to typeset equations, while the remainder of the book addresses advanced topics and more general text processing and page formatting topics. A TeX Primer for Scientists will save you time and reduce frustration while increasing the flexibility, quality, and efficiency of your documents.

Audience

Physical scientists, mathematicians, engineers, students, and technical word processing staff.

Features

• Uses a concise, straightforward presentation style
• Covers all basic equation typesetting topics
• Addresses how to have TeX automatically create tables of contents and indexe s
• Explains how to quickly add new TeX fonts to your system
• Illustrates how to make text flow around a graphic on a page
• Shows how to change math-made and other fonts for larger, smaller, or bolder text purposes (e.g., titles, figures, footnotes)
• Provides a brief appendix discussing differences between Plain TeX, LaTeX, a nd AMS-TeX

Contents

• Basics of TeX
• Preliminaries
• Examples
• Notes about Using TeX
• TeX Comes in Three Flavors
• More about Hardware and Software
• Basic Mathematics
• Preliminaries
• Mathematics in Text and Display
• Subscripts, Superscripts, and Fractions
• Square Roots and Friends
• Proclaiming Your Results
• Sums and Integrals
• More Basic Mathematics
• Abbreviations in Math Mode
• Double Sums and Double Integrals
• Multiline Limits in Sums and Integrals
• Text and Spacing in Displayed Formulas
• Arbitrary Spacing
• Hskips and Vskips
• Large Delimiters
• Homonyms in TeX
• More Math
• Macros and Alignments
• TeX Macros
• Macros with Arguments
• Aligned Equations
• Matrices and Cases
• Simple Tables Using Matrices
• Basic Text
• Basic TeX Fonts
• TeX Commands in Text
• Variables in TeX
• Displayed Text
• Lists
• Counts and Autonumbering
• The Tabbing Environment
• Typesetting More Basic Text
• Hyphens, n-Dashes, and m-Dashes
• Between-Word, Non-Break, and between-Sentence Spaces
• Text Accents
• More Fonts
• Page Formatting
• Floats
• Advanced Macros
• Paragraph Formatting
• Text Alignments
• Haligns
• More on Haligns
• Appendices
• What About ATeX? What is AMS-TeX? Minimum System Requirements
• Installing TeX on Your Computer

Pricing and Publication

Catalog no. 7159

November 1994, 232 pp., ISBN: 0-8493-7159-7

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