A resource for those who use LaTeX to create high-quality printed documents. This book also shows you how to customize layout features to your own needs - from phrases and paragraphs to headings, lists, and pages. The accompanying CD-ROM contains a complete plug-and-play LaTeX installation, including the packages and examples featured in the book.

'METAFONT' is a system for the design of symbols and alphabetic characters suited to raster-based devices that print or display text. This METAFONT book enables readers, with only minimal computer science or word processing experience, to master the basic as well as the more advanced features of METAFONT programming.

The LATEX typesetting system remains a popular choice for typesetting a wide variety of documents, from papers, journal articles, and presentations, to books--especially those that include technical text or demand high-quality composition. This book is the most comprehensive guide to making illustrations in LATEX documents, and it has been completely revised and expanded to include the latest ...

Describes how type should look and how to make it look that way; in other words, how to set type like a professional. This book explains in practical terms how to use computerized tools to achieve that secret of good design: well-set type. It is useful reference for anyone who works with type.

Shows how you can publish LaTeX documents on the Web. This book describes tools and techniques for transforming LaTeX sources into Web formats for electronic publication, and for transforming Web sources into LaTeX documents for optimal printing.

Appropriate for introductory courses on print publishing, desktop publishing, typography, or document production, this book provides students with simple, logical principles for using type to produce professional documents. Some of the topics include: real vs. generic quotation marks, the correct use of en and em dashes, tabs, indents, and more.

Aimed at PC users, this text focuses on the typographic aspects of this machine, covering such areas as punctuation, leading, special characters, kerning, fonts, justification and more.

A critical guide for designers, writers, editors and students.

Offers installation instructions for PC and Mac users and an exposition of multiline math formulas. This book provides a unified approach to Tex, Latex, and the AMS enhancements; and an introduction to creating presentations with computer projections. It is suitable for scientists and engineers.

A guide to AMSTeX, a software package based on the computer typesetting language TeX. It reflects the changes introduced on Version 2.0 of the AMSTeX macro package.

This book will help those wishing to teach a course in technical writing, or who wish to write themselves.

Nick Higham follows up his successful HWMS volume with this much-anticipated second edition.

TEX is hard to use because it is in essence a programming language and so is best viewed from this perspective. In this text, the author presents a complete course in TEX which should be suitable for users of TEX who want to advance beyond the basics.

Offers information for copy editors, proofreaders, and production staff to do a traditional copy editing and proofreading of a manuscript and proof copy, this book is suitable for authors who have become intricately involved with the typesetting of their manuscripts. It serves as a training tool for newcomers to mathematical publishing.

This study of five centuries of book designs looks at the successes and failures, and examines some classics of layout and production from Western Europe and America. It follows design from the uncluttered Italian Renaissance, through French ornamentation, to 19th and 20th century mass production.

Type is the bridge between writer and reader, between thought and understanding. This book treats typography as a measure of history. It is a guide through the history of letters and a study of their power. From fashion through propaganda and the development of mass literacy, it shows how typography has changed our world.

An analysis of letter forms, from Garamond and Bembo to the design and manufacture of sans-serif and newspaper type.

A lot has happened in the world of digital design since the first edition of this title was published, but one thing remains true: There is an ever-growing number of people attempting to design pages with no formal training. This book is the one place they can turn to find quick, non-intimidating, excellent design help from trusted design instructor Robin Williams. This revised classic--now in ...

Offering updated material to reflect current style, this 15th edition includes guidance on electronic publications, journals and mathematical copy. A comprehensive gathering of material, the Chicago Manual of Style is an essential reference for publishing professionals.