TeX Reference Manual, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002

The TeX Reference Manual is the first comprehensive reference manual written by a programmer for programmers. It contains reference pages for each of TeX's 325 primitive control sequences. Over 80% of its reference pages contain examples that range from simple to challenging. Each example is typeset verbatim in a style which is easy to read and experiment with. TeX Reference Manual also just typesets the example, so you can see what it makes, and explains how the example works. The description on each primitive's reference page is an annotated discussion of The TeXbook's treatment of the primitive. That means a TeX user will find it natural to move back and forth between the two books. One of TeX Reference Manual's innovative features is families. They simplify the search for the primitive which performs a particular task.Primitive Control Sequences,Family Name Type Description,Box (29) Logic (20) C Command (163),Character (16) Macro (20) D Derived Command (17),Debugging (25) Marks (4) IQ Internal Quantity (42),File I/O (13) Math (69) PI Parameter (integer) (55),Fonts (5) Page (13) PD Parameter (dimen) (21),Glue (12) Paragraph (30) PG Parameter (glue) (15),Hyphenation (11) Penalties (12) PM Parameter (muglue) (3),Inserts (8) Registers (11) PT Parameter (token) (9),Job (11) Tables (9),Kern (7).TeX Reference Manual has appendices

1. Families and Primitive Control Sequences.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 The Box Family.- 1.3 The Character Family.- 1.4 The Debugging Family.- 1.5 The File I/O Family.- 1.6 The Fonts Family.- 1.7 The Glue Family.- 1.8 The Hyphenation Family.- 1.9 The Inserts Family.- 1.10 The Job Family.- 1.11 The Kern Family.- 1.12 The Logic Family.- 1.13 The Macro Family.- 1.14 The Marks Family.- 1.15 The Math Family.- 1.16 The Page Family.- 1.17 The Paragraph Family.- 1.18 The Penalties Family.- 1.19 The Registers Family.- 1.20 The Tables Family.- 2. Reference Pages for the Primitives.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 The References Pages.- Appendix A. Typesetting Verbatim Material.- A.l Introduction.- A.2 In-line Verbatim.- A.3 Multi-line Verbatim.- A.4 Limitations to Typesetting Verbatim Material.- A. 5 Automatic Line Numbering and Verbatim.- Appendix B. Working with PostScript Fonts.- B.l Introduction.- B.2 Back-end Font Macros.- B.3 Font File Names and Encoding Vectors.- B.4 Preparing Font Tables.- Appendix C. Typesetting Material in Two Columns.- G.l Introduction.- G.2 Two-Column Macros.- G.3 Index Preparation.