Books on TeX and its relations
While Knuth's book is the definitive reference for TeX, there are
other books covering TeX:
- The TeXbook
- by Donald Knuth (Addison-Wesley, 1984,
ISBN 0-201-13447-0, paperback ISBN 0-201-13448-9)
- A Beginner's Book of TeX
- by Raymond Seroul and Silvio Levy,
(Springer Verlag, 1992, ISBN 0-387-97562-4)
- TeX by Example: A Beginner's Guide
- by Arvind Borde
(Academic Press, 1992, ISBN 0-12-117650-9)
- Introduction to TeX
- by Norbert Schwarz (Addison-Wesley,
1989, ISBN 0-201-51141-X)
- A Plain TeX Primer
- by Malcolm Clark (Oxford University
Press, 1993, ISBNs 0-198-53724-7 (hardback) and 0-198-53784-0
(paperback))
- TeX by Topic
- by Victor Eijkhout (Addison-Wesley, 1992,
ISBN 0-201-56882-9)
- TeX for the Beginner
- by Wynter Snow (Addison-Wesley, 1992,
ISBN 0-201-54799-6)
- TeX for the Impatient
- by Paul W. Abrahams, Karl Berry and
Kathryn A. Hargreaves (Addison-Wesley, 1990, ISBN 0-201-51375-7)
- TeX in Practice
- 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)
- TeX: Starting from Square One
-
by Michael Doob (Springer
Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-540-56441-1)
- The Advanced TeXbook
- by David Salomon (Springer Verlag, 1995,
ISBN 0-387-94556-3)
A collection of Knuth's publications about typography has recently been
published:
- Digital Typography
- by Donald Knuth (CSLI and Cambridge
University Press, 1999, ISBN 1-57586-011-2, paperback
ISBN 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 0-201-73416-8).
For LaTeX, see:
- LaTeX, a Document Preparation System
- by Leslie Lamport
(second edition, Addison Wesley, 1994, ISBN 0-201-52983-1)
- A guide to LaTeX2e
- Helmut Kopka and Patrick W. Daly (third
edition, Addison-Wesley, 1998, ISBN 0-201-39825-7)
- The LaTeX Companion
- by Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach,
and Alexander Samarin (Addison-Wesley, 1993, ISBN 0-201-54199-8)
- The LaTeX Graphics Companion:
-
Illustrating documents with TeX and PostScript by Michel
Goossens, Sebastian Rahtz and Frank Mittelbach (Addison-Wesley,
1997, ISBN 0-201-85469-4)
- The LaTeX Web Companion
-
Integrating TeX, HTML and XML by Michel
Goossens and Sebastian Rahtz (Addison-Wesley, 1999, ISBN 0-201-43311-7)
- TeX Unbound:
-
LaTeX and TeX strategies for fonts, graphics, and more
by Alan Hoenig (Oxford University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-19-509685-1
hardback, ISBN 0-19-509686-X paperback)
- Math into TeX:
- A Simplified Introduction using AMSLaTeX
by George Grätzer (Birkhäuser, 1993, ISBN 0-817-63637-4, or,
in Germany, ISBN 3-764-33637-4)
- Math into LaTeX:
- An Introduction to LaTeX and AMSLaTeX
by George Grätzer (third edition Birkhäuser and Springer Verlag,
2000, ISBN 0-8176-4431-9, ISBN 3-7643-4131-9)
A list of errata for the first printing is available from:
http://www.springer-ny.com/catalog/np/jan99np/0-387-98708-8.html
- First Steps in LaTeX
- by George Grätzer (Birkhäuser, 1999,
ISBN 0-8176-4132-7)
- LaTeX: Line by Line:
-
Tips and Techniques for Document Processing
by Antoni Diller (second edition, John Wiley & Sons,
1999, ISBN 0-471-97918-X)
- LaTeX for Linux:
- A Vade Mecum
by Bernice Sacks Lipkin (Springer-Verlag, 1999,
ISBN 0-387-98708-8, second printing)
A sample
of George Grätzer's book, in Adobe Acrobat format, is also available
(info/mil/mil.pdf).
Example files for the LaTeX Graphics and Web Companions are
available in info/lgc.tar.gz (Graphics) and info/lwc.tar.gz (Web).
Example files for George Grätzer's 'First Steps' are available in
info/FirstSteps.tar.gz
The list for Metafont is rather short:
- The Metafontbook
- by Donald Knuth (Addison Wesley, 1986,
ISBN 0-201-13445-4, ISBN 0-201-52983-1 paperback)
Alan Hoenig's 'TeX Unbound' includes some discussion and
examples of using Metafont.
This list only covers books in English: UK TUG cannot hope to maintain
a list of books in languages other than our own.