Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!rex!uflorida!travis!tom From: tom@ssd.csd.harris.com (Tom Horsley) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: concise reference manual? Message-ID: Date: 7 Feb 91 13:39:13 GMT Sender: news@travis.csd.harris.com Organization: Harris Computer Systems Division Lines: 24 I have been using TeX and LaTeX on and off for a while now, and I would like to become more of an expert, be able to write my own macro packages, etc. I have been plowing through the TeX book, but practically everything in it is a forward reference to something that has not been defined yet. It gets kind of frustrating after a while... Has anyone produced a document that simply lists all the TeX primitives in alphabetical order and gives a brief description of them? Something like an assembly reference manual for a computer (only for TeX instead)? It would probably help if it included the plain TeX definitions as well. I looked in the latest FAQ and couldn't find anything like this. If such a beast exists in a book, please tell me the name of the book. If it exists online, please tell me where I can get it via anonymous FTP. If it doesn't exists at all, please tell me how much you would pay for one, and maybe I will write a book myself :-). -- ====================================================================== domain: tahorsley@csd.harris.com USMail: Tom Horsley uucp: ...!uunet!hcx1!tahorsley 511 Kingbird Circle Delray Beach, FL 33444 +==== Censorship is the only form of Obscenity ======================+ | (Wait, I forgot government tobacco subsidies...) | +====================================================================+