A Tex Primer for Scientists (Studies in Advanced Mathematics) [Paperback]

Stanley A. Sawyer (Editor), Steven G. Krantz (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0849371597 | ISBN-13: 978-0849371592 | Publication Date: February 1, 1995 | Edition: 1

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: CRC-Press; 1 edition (February 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0849371597
• ISBN-13: 978-0849371592
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,061,904 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars A reasonably useful book, April 11, 2000

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This review is from: A Tex Primer for Scientists (Studies in Advanced Mathematics) (Paperback)

If you are learning how to use plain TeX, this is a pretty good book. It teaches you the basics quickly and quite well, but it fails as far as more refined uses are concerned. The more difficult commands, especially related to vertical and horizontal glueing are not properly explained, and the appendix about LaTeX is altogether pretty useless. Still, since experimentation is the name of the game in TeX, you might as well have this book on your shelf rather than some other, especially if you would rather dispose with cute drawings and other nonsense you do find in other TeX user manuals.