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The joy of TEX : a gourmet guide to typesetting with the AMS-TEX macro package

Michael Spivak

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This is the second edition of The Joy of TEX, the user-friendly guide to AMS-TEX, which is a software package based on the revolutionary computer typesetting language TEX. AMS-TEX was designed to simplify the typesetting of mathematical quantitites, equations, and displays, and to format the output according to any of various preset style specifications. This manual is useful for technical typists as well as scientists who prepare their own manuscripts.

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This is the second edition of The Joy of TEX, the user-friendly guide to AMS-TEX, which is a software package based on the revolutionary computer typesetting language TEX. AMS-TEX was designed to simplify the typesetting of mathematical quantitites, equations, and displays, and to format the output according to any of various preset style specifications. This manual is useful for technical typists as well as scientists who prepare their own manuscripts.

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This is the second edition of The Joy of TEX, the user-friendly guide to AMS-TEX, which is a software package based on the revolutionary computer typesetting language TEX. AMS-TEX was designed to simplify the typesetting of mathematical quantitites, equations, and displays, and to format the output according to any of various preset style specifications. This manual is useful for technical typists as well as scientists who prepare their own manuscripts.

Key concepts: Macro, Computer science, Style (visual arts), Programming language, Software, Engineering drawing, Multimedia, Computer graphics (images)

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