Computers & Typesetting, Volume A: The TeXbook

This book is a perfect TeX manual. TeX is a text markup language designed and implemented by Donald Ervin Knuth, an American computer scientist, mathematician, and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He is known for his multi-volume manual "The Art of Computer Programming." The first version of TeX came out in 1978, and since then it has become a popular means of typesetting complex mathematical formulas. TeX is widely used in academia, especially mathematics, computer science, economics, engineering, linguistics, physics, statistics, and quantitative psychology. TeX is also used for many other typesetting tasks, especially in "LaTeX", "ConTeXt" and other macro packages. Donald Knuth designed TeX willing to achieve two main goals: to allow anyone to produce high-quality books or scientific papers with minimal effort, and provide a system that can give exactly the same results on all computers at any point in time. This idea of obtaining precisely the same results on all computers was later re-implemented by Adobe in 1993 and standardized to ISO 32000 in 2008 as a portable document format (PDF). However, this book is not about PDF, but about TeX and how to master it from scratch. It is an excellent book as a manual. It teaches you through straightforward, continuous steps, so you don't need to have a priori background in typography or text markup.

Just as I expected. To the point.

Je voulais ce livre depuis longtemps mais vu le prix ... je me suis fait plaisir en l'acquérant récemment.C'est un véritable petit bijou pour qui souhaite mieux comprendre le fonctionnement de TeX.Le seul bémol est sans doute au niveau des exercices ... certains nécessitent des connaissances qui n'apparaissent que dans des chapitres suivants, plus ardus; disons que c'est ce qui fait le charme : on satisfait sa soif de connaissances en allant puiser dans des sources parfois lointaines.Un grand merci à Monsieur KNUTH pour ce superbe ouvrage et tout ce qu'il a partagé !

Very good condition