TEX in Practice

1 Before We Get Started.- 1.1 What Is TEX?.- 1.2 Complexity and Power of Systems.- 1.3 Summary.- 2 Processing with TEX.- 2.1 Properties and Capabilities of TEX.- 2.2 Macros, Macro Packages and Formats.- 2.3 Files Accessed by TEX.- 2.4 Preparations for Using TEX Efficiently.- 2.5 Utilities.- 2.6 Information about TEX.- 2.7 Entering Text.- 2.8 The Space, Tab and End-of-Line Characters.- 2.9 Organizing Your TEX Sources.- 2.10 How to Experiment with TEX.- 2.11 Summary.- 3 Registers, Numbers, and Counter Registers In Particular.- 3.1 Registers in General.- 3.2 Register Arithmetic.- 3.3 Numbers and Counter Registers in TEX.- 3.4 Generic Counter Register Macros.- 3.5 Summary.- 4 More on Registers, Dimensions.- 4.1 Dimensions and Dimension Units.- 4.2 Glue Registers.- 4.3 Math Glue Registers.- 4.4 Mixing Counter, Dimension and Glue Registers.- 4.5 Box Registers.- 4.6 Summary of the /new… Macros.- 4.7 Dumping All Parameters into the Logfile.- 4.8 Summary.- 5 Glue, Leaders and Rules.- 5.1 Basic Properties of Glue.- 5.2 Horizontal Glue.- 5.3 Badness of Boxes.- 5.4 Glue with Infinite Stretchability and Shrinkability.- 5.5 Vertical Glue, /vskip.- 5.6 Leaders.- 5.7 Rules.- 5.8 Penalties.- 5.9 Summary.- 6 Boxes.- 6.1 Basics About Boxes, Box Types.- 6.2 Horizontal Boxes (Hboxes).- 6.3 Examples of Building Horizontal Boxes.- 6.4 Determining the Dimensions of Hboxes.- 6.5 Hboxes of Zero or Nearly Zero Width, /hbox to Opt {…}.- 6.6 /…line Macros /line, /leftline, /rightline and /centerline.- 6.7 Generating More Hboxes.- 6.8 A Table Generated with Hboxes.- 6.9 Building Tables Using /settabs.- 6.10 More Hbox Examples.- 6.11 /hidevidth.- 6.12 Infinite Glues and Hboxes.- 6.13 Token Parameters /everyhbox and /everyvbox.- 6.14 Summary.- 7 Vertical Boxes.- 7.1 Basics of Vertical Boxes.-7.2 Building Simple Vboxes.- 7.3 Line Spacing and Interline Glue.- 7.4 Struts.- 7.5 The Dimensions of Vboxes.- 7.6 Summary.- 8 More on Vertical Boxes.- 8.1 Unwrapping Boxes Using /un… Primitives.- 8.2 Splitting Vboxes, /vsplit.- 8.3 Making a Box Larger, /BoxLarger.- 8.4 Another More Complicated Vbox Example.- 8.5 Removing Items from a Box Related List.- 8.6 Vertical Spacing Macros.- 8.7 Summary.- 9 Boxes and Rules.- 9.1 Rule Placement and Borderline of Boxes.- 9.2 Macros to Draw Simple Graphs.- 9.3 Drawing Rules Around a Box.- 9.4 Summary.- Source Code File Index.