Overview

This concise, straightforward guide provides an all-purpose introduction to writing and preparing papers, reports, articles, and books with TEX. Scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and technical staff will discover how easy it is to clearly and quickly perform all the necessary tasks required to prepare equations and text. The first half of the book is devoted to explaining how to typeset equations, while the remainder of the book addresses advanced topics and more general text processing and page formatting topics. A TEX Primer for Scientists will save you time and reduce frustration while increasing the flexibility, quality, and efficiency of your documents.

Full Product Details

Author:   Stanley A. Sawyer (Washington University) ,  Steven G. Krantz (Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   CRC Press Inc
Volume:   15
Dimensions:   Width: 18.70cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.739kg
ISBN:  

9780849371592

ISBN 10:   0849371597
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   21 December 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Basics of TEX Preliminaries Examples Notes about Using TEX TEX Comes in Three Flavors More about Hardware and Software Basic Mathematics Preliminaries Mathematics in Text and Display Subscripts, Superscripts, and Fractions Square Roots and Friends Proclaiming Your Results Sums and Integrals More Basic Mathematics Abbreviations in Math Mode Double Sums and Double Integrals Multiline Limits in Sums and Integrals Text and Spacing in Displayed Formulas Arbitrary Spacing Hskips and Vskips Large Delimiters Homonyms in TEX More Math Macros and Alignments TEX Macros Macros with Arguments Aligned Equations Matrices and Cases Simple Tables Using Matrices Basic Text Basic TEX Fonts TEX Commands in Text Variables in TEX Displayed Text Lists Counts and Autonumbering The Tabbing Environment Typesetting More Basic Text Hyphens, n-Dashes, and m-Dashes Between-Word, Non-Break, and between-Sentence Spaces Text Accents More Fonts Page Formatting Floats Advanced Macros Paragraph Formatting Text Alignments Haligns More on Haligns Appendices What About ATEX? What is AMS-TEX? Minimum System Requirements Installing TEX on Your Computer

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