[texhax] TeX books, was Re: question about \if
Boris Veytsman
borisv at lk.net
Fri Nov 12 17:06:45 CET 2010
UL> From: "Uwe Lueck" <uwe.lueck at web.de>
UL> Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:30:55 +0100 (CET)
UL> A TeX macro programmer should IMHO read the TeXbook -- or
UL> something similar, I cannot properly compare ... but it is the
UL> only book I really can recommend for this purpose!
While The TeXbook is indeed great, I would also recommend this reference:
@Book{Eijkhout07:TeXbyTopic,
author = {Victor Eijkhout},
title = {{\TeX} by Topic},
publisher = {Lulu},
year = 2007,
note = {\url{http://eijkhout.net/texbytopic/texbytopic.html}}}
By the way, the electronic copy of this book is free. I use both the
printed (from Lulu) and electronic versions a lot.
--
Good luck
-Boris
Suppose you're working on an optimizer to render \X unnecessary (or
rather, redundant, which isn't the same thing in my book).
-- Larry Wall in <199710211624.JAA17833 at wall.org>
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