Books on TeX, Plain TeX and relations
While Knuth’s book is the definitive reference for both TeX and
Plain TeX, there are many books covering these topics:
- The TeXbook
- by Donald Knuth (Addison-Wesley, 1984,
ISBN-10 0-201-13447-0, paperback ISBN-10 0-201-13448-9)
- A Beginner’s Book of TeX
- by Raymond Seroul and Silvio Levy,
(Springer Verlag, 1992, ISBN-10 0-387-97562-4)
- TeX by Example: A Beginner’s Guide
- by Arvind Borde
(Academic Press, 1992, ISBN-10 0-12-117650-9 — now out of print)
- Introduction to TeX
- by Norbert Schwarz (Addison-Wesley,
1989, ISBN-10 0-201-51141-X — now out of print)
- A Plain TeX Primer
- by Malcolm Clark (Oxford University
Press, 1993, ISBNs 0-198-53724-7 (hardback) and 0-198-53784-0
(paperback))
- A TeX Primer for Scientists
- by Stanley Sawyer and Steven
Krantz (CRC Press, 1994, ISBN-10 0-849-37159-7)
- TeX by Topic
- by Victor Eijkhout (Addison-Wesley, 1992,
ISBN-10 0-201-56882-9 — now out of print, but see
online books; you can also now buy a copy
printed, on demand, by Lulu — see
http://www.lulu.com/content/2555607)
- TeX for the Beginner
- by Wynter Snow (Addison-Wesley, 1992,
ISBN-10 0-201-54799-6)
- TeX for the Impatient
- by Paul W. Abrahams, Karl Berry and
Kathryn A. Hargreaves (Addison-Wesley, 1990,
ISBN-10 0-201-51375-7 — now out of print, but see
online books)
- TeX in Practice
- by Stephan von Bechtolsheim (Springer
Verlag, 1993, 4 volumes, ISBN-10 3-540-97296-X for the set, or
Vol. 1: ISBN-10 0-387-97595-0,
Vol. 2: ISBN-10 0-387-97596-9,
Vol. 3: ISBN-10 0-387-97597-7, and
Vol. 4: ISBN-10 0-387-97598-5)
- TeX: Starting from Square One
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by Michael Doob (Springer
Verlag, 1993, ISBN-10 3-540-56441-1 — now out of print)
- The Joy of TeX
- by Michael D. Spivak (second edition,
AMS, 1990, ISBN-10 0-821-82997-1)
- The Advanced TeXbook
- by David Salomon (Springer Verlag, 1995,
ISBN-10 0-387-94556-3)
A collection of Knuth’s publications about typography is also available:
- Digital Typography
- by Donald Knuth (CSLI and Cambridge
University Press, 1999, ISBN-10 1-57586-011-2, paperback
ISBN-10 1-57586-010-4).
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:
- Computers & Typesetting, Volumes A–E Boxed Set
- by Donald Knuth
(Addison-Wesley, 2001, ISBN-10 0-201-73416-8).
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