TEX

The Program

Donald E. Knuth

Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 1986, 594 pages

ISBN: 0-201-13437-3

Keywords: Programming

Last modified: Aug. 7, 2021, 8:33 p.m.

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  1. Introduction
  2. The character set
  3. Input and output
  4. String handling
  5. On-line and off-line printing
  6. Reporting errors
  7. Arithmetic with scaled dimensions
  8. Packed data
  9. Dynamic memory allocation
  10. Data structures for boxes and their friends
  11. Memory layout
  12. Displaying boxes
  13. Destroying boxes
  14. Copying boxes
  15. The command codes
  16. The semantic nest
  17. The table of equivalents
  18. The hash tables
  19. Saving and restoring equivalents
  20. Toekn lists
  21. Introduction to the syntactic routines
  22. Input stacks and states
  23. Maintaining the input stacks
  24. Getting the next token
  25. Expanding the next token
  26. Basic scanning subroutines
  27. Building token lists
  28. Conditional processing
  29. File names
  30. Font metric data
  31. Device-independent file format
  32. Shipping pages out
  33. Packaging
  34. Data structures for math mode
  35. Subroutines for math modes
  36. Typesetting math formulas
  37. Alignment
  38. Breaking paragraphs into lines
  39. Breaking paragraphs into lines, continued
  40. Pre-hyphenation
  41. Post-hyphenation
  42. Hyphenation
  43. Initializing the hyphenation tables
  44. Breaking vertical lists into pages
  45. The page builder
  46. The chief executive
  47. Building boxes and lists
  48. Building math lists
  49. Mode-indepenent processing
  50. Dumping and undumping the tables
  51. The main program
  52. Debugging
  53. Extensions
  54. System-dependent changes
  55. Index

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TEX

Reviewed by Roland Buresund

Decent ****** (6 out of 10)

Last modified: Jan. 28, 2014, 1:39 a.m.

Commented meta-code to the TEX program. A classic.

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