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TEX, a software system created by Donald E. Knuth, sets the standard for typesetting in mathematics, science, and engineering. "TEX for the Impatient" is a handbook that arose from the need to help technical writers learn TEX more quickly - and once having learned it, to find fast answers to common questions. Clear, concise, and accessible, this book is organized for easy retrieval of information, thoroughly indexed, and carefully designed for learning by example.
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9 Sep 2003 TEX for the Impatient TEX for the Impatient 4:48 p.m. No 1 9 Sep 2003 TEX for the Impatient 4:48 p.m. No 2 9 Sep 2003 TEX for the Impatient 4:48 p.m. No 3 9 Sep 2003 4:48 p.m. TEX for the Impatient ‘TEX’ is a trademark of the American Mathematical Society. ‘METAFONT’ is a trademark of Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. This book, TEX for the Impatient, contains both tutorial and reference information on all features of both plain and primitive TEX. c 2003 Paul W. Abrahams, Kathryn A. Hargreaves, and Karl Copyright Berry. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover texts, and with no Back-Cover texts. A copy of the license is included in the chapter entitled “GNU Free Documentation License”. Under the terms of the GFDL, anyone is allowed to modify and redistribute this material, and it is our hope that others will find it useful to do so. That includes translations, either to other natural languages, or to other computer source or output formats. In our interpretation of the GFDL, you may also extract text from this book for use in a new document,