Math into Latex

by George Grätzer

AMS packages that replaced AMS-Ib-TEX, version 1.1, but the book still had an AMS-Ib-TEX-centric view. This third edition is about Ib-TEX. Where necessary, I recommend that you use packages to extend Ib-TEX's capabilities. For typesetting mathematics, I strongly recommend that you use the AMS packages. AMS packages, version 2.0 The American Mathematical Society released version 2.0 ofthe AMS packages in 1999. This third edition covers the changes made in this release. Books The first and second editions of this book dealt primarily with the tasks involved in writing artides. In Part V, the third edition addresses the issues that arise when creating longer documents. In addition to chapters on BIBTEX and Makelndex, I have added a new chapter on writing books. Appendix F illustrates the impor­ tance of choosing a well-designed book document dass. Other changes B\1EX Ib-TEX2 has been remarkably stable since its release in 1996, becorning c the standard Ib-TEX (see Section C.1.2). Changeshave been rninor except for ad­ vances in using Ib-TEX with non-English languages (see the new Appendix E) and the widespread use of the PostScript CM and AMS fonts (see the new Section D.l). Reorganization and additions Due to the new emphasis on writing books, a number of sections and subsections have moved from Chapter 2 and Chapters 6-8 to the new Chapter 12.

Genres: Mathematics, Computer Science, Writing, Textbooks

616 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

Reviews

[Jakub · Rating 3 out of 5]

Serves as a great reference, but not really fun to read from beginning to end.

[Alain · Rating 5 out of 5]

required reading for math majors.

[ltcomdata · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quite comprehensive review up to 2007 of the evolving LaTeX system. I would have liked better to distinguish all the various packages instead of lumping them all together into "LaTeX", but it is certainly true that most distributions simply install them all, so the difference is for the control freaks who want to know where everything is coming from. I do hope that LaTeX3 finally arrives to organize the new 'core' LaTeX so that we don't have to think in terms of packages any more, nor in terms of different implementations achieving the same effect.

There was no ention of the microtype package in this book... perhaps it was too new when it was written (6 years ago now). There was also very little mention of XeTeX or LuaTeX, both of which projects seem to have some steam behind them. In particular, XeTeX could finally solve the problem that TeX has always had: mainstream fonts. Of course, if one is typesetting math, one might need specialized (and not mainstream) fonts. Still, it would be quite convenient to install fonts in the operating system, and without doing anything further, having those fonts readily available to TeX.

[Darin]

This book is published in the US under the name More Math Into LaTeX, 4th Ed. This is by far the most comprehensive book I have seen for showing how to create mathematical expressions in LaTeX.

[Kiarash · Rating 5 out of 5]

an excellent and comprehensive LaTeX typesetting book.

[Noa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Anyone can LaTeX, easy-peasy.