@Book{eijkhout92a,
  author =	 {Victor Eijkhout},
  title =	 {Tex by Topic: A Texnician's Reference},
  publisher =	 {Addison-Wesley},
  year =	 1992,
  abstract =	 {To the casual observer, TEX is not a
                  state-of-the-art typesetting system. No flashy
                  multilevel menus and interactive manipulation of
                  text and graphics dazzle the onlooker. On a less
                  superficial level, however, TEX is a very
                  sophisticated program, first of all because of the
                  ingeniousness of its built-in algorithms for such
                  things as paragraph breaking and make-up of
                  mathematical formulas, and second because of its
                  almost complete programmability. The combination of
                  these factors makes it possible for TEX to realize
                  almost every imaginable layout in a highly automated
                  fashion. Unfortunately, it also means that TEX has
                  an unusually large number of commands and
                  parameters, and that programming TEX can be far from
                  easy. Anyone wanting to program in TEX, and maybe
                  even the ordinary user, would seem to need two
                  books: a tutorial that gives a first glimpse of the
                  many nuts and bolts of TEX, and after that a
                  systematic, complete reference manual. This book
                  tries to fulfil the latter function. A TEXer who has
                  already made a start (using any of a number of
                  introductory books on the market) should be able to
                  use this book indefinitely thereafter. In this
                  volume the universe of TEX is presented as about
                  forty different subjects, each in a separate
                  chapter. Each chapter starts out with a list of
                  control sequences relevant to the topic of that
                  chapter and proceeds to treat the theory of the
                  topic. Most chapters conclude with remarks and
                  examples. Globally, the chapters are ordered as
                  follows. The chapters on basic mechanisms are first,
                  the chapters on text treatment and mathematics are
                  next, and finally there are some chapters on output
                  and aspects of TEX's connections to the outside
                  world. The book also contains a glossary of TEX
                  commands, tables, and indexes by example, by control
                  sequence, and by subject. The subject index refers
                  for most concepts to only one page, where most of
                  the information on that topic can be found, as well
                  as references to the locations of related
                  information. This book does not treat any specific
                  TEX macro package. Any parts of the plain format
                  that are treated are those parts that belong to the
                  `core' of plain TEX: they are also present in, for
                  instance, LATEX. Therefore, most remarks about the
                  plain format are true for LATEX, as well as most
                  other formats. Putting it differently, if the text
                  refers to the plain format, this should be taken as
                  a contrast to pure IniTEX, not to LATEX. By way of
                  illustration, occasionally macros from plain TEX are
                  explained that do not belong to the core.},
  keywords =     {tex},
  isbn = 	 {39001799104},
  cluster = 	 {9944646770796978981},
  url = 	 {http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/library/eijkhout92a.pdf}
}