LaTeX a printing office in your hands. (LaTeX una imprenta en sus manos.) (Spanish) Zbl 0943.68178

Cascales Salinas, Bernardo; Lucas Saorín, Pascual; Mira Ros, José Manuel; Pallarés Ruiz, Antonio; Sánchez-Pedreño Guillén, Salvador

Madrid: Aula Documental de Investigación. xxxvii, 680 p. (2000).

This is a comprehensive introduction to the T_EX typesetting system based on the L^AT_EX macro package. The text roughly follows the standard outline, but goes beyond the usual texts in the choice of topics treated. Besides core L^AT_EX many popular packages and tools – e.g., fancyhdr, minitoc, epic, color, calc, treetex, chemsym, to mention just a few – are presented, even MetaPost (for graphics), musixtex (for music), and foreign language packages (like arabtex) are included. Moreover, fortunately the authors do not restrict themselves to ‘pure’ L^AT_EX markup, manual style, but also treat background information, ‘plain’ T_EX functionality (like \(\backslash\)string\(\backslash\)def), and useful things like how to write BIB T_EX styles. (Though some implementation related topics – like PostScript and TrueType fonts, dviwin, and HTML or PDF output – are discussed, issues of operating systems are not included.) Thus, for most typesetting problems, this book will offer help – if not it’s solution, then at least a pointer to its solution. It is a welcome addition to the TeX literature in general, not only that of the Spanish speaking world.

Reviewer: P.Schmitt (Wien)

MSC:

68U15	Computing methodologies for text processing; mathematical typography
68-01	Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to computer science

Keywords:

TeX; LaTeX

Software:

xcolor; TeX; minitoc; musixtex; treetex; fancyhdr; chemsym; arabtex; LaTeX; MetaPost