LaTeX is the leading text preparation system for high-quality documents, and is used extensively in the sciences and academia. This special boxed set brings together the brand new editions of Guide to LaTeX, 0321173856, and The LaTeX Companion, 0201362996, along with the specialized guides The LaTeX Graphics Companion, 0201854694, and The LaTeX Web Companion, 0201433117. These four books provide a complete tutorial and reference to LaTeX, with very little overlap. The authors include key members of the LaTeX3 Project, responsible for maintaining and revising LaTeX.
Frank Mittelbach studied mathematics and computer science at the
Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz. These days he is working for HP
Enterprise Services in an architect role.
His interest in LaTeX and in the automated formatting of complex documents in
general goes back to his university days and has become a major interest,
perhaps a vocation. He is author or co-author of many and varied LaTeX
extension packages, such as AmSLaTeX, doc, multicol, and NFSS: the New Font
Selection Scheme.
At the TUG conference at Stanford University in 1989, he gave a talk about the
problems with LaTeX 2.09, which led to his taking on the responsibility for
the maintenance and further development of LaTeX. This effort is generally
known as the LaTeX3 Project and in the capacity of technical director of this
project, he has overseen the original major release of LaTeX2e in 1994 and
the, by now, about 20 subsequent maintenance releases of this software.
His publication of many technical papers on LaTeX and on general research
results in automated formatting brought him in contact with Peter Gordon from
Addison-Wesley. Peter and Frank inaugurated the book series "Tools and
Techniques for Computer Typesetting" (TTCT), with Frank as series editor. "The
LaTeX Companion" (1994) was the first book of this series whose titles by now
cover LaTeX in all its facets. Forthcoming works will expand that core to
cover other typesetting and information processing tools and concepts.
