Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!jarthur!linus.claremont.edu!dhosek From: dhosek@linus.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: concise reference manual? Message-ID: <1991Feb11.234554.1@linus.claremont.edu> Date: 12 Feb 91 07:45:54 GMT References: Sender: news@jarthur.Claremont.EDU Organization: Quixote Lines: 35 In article , spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) writes: > In article tom@ssd.csd.harris.com (Tom Horsley) writes: > > 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. > > Norbert Schwarz `Introduction to TeX', Addison Wesley 1990 (sorry for > mentioning it twice in a day, but I am writing a review of it :-}) has > an appendix listing all the plain TeX commands. > > TUG sell a document which is a command summary for LaTeX - look at > their catalogue in a recent Tugboat There is a KeyWord In Context index of TeX and LaTeX commands that was done by Bill Cheswick at AT&T. I got mine free by writing to AT&T for it (my collection of AT&T tech reports keeps growing). The TUG office should be able to let you know how to get it (and if they can't, tell them that I said that they should find out). TeX Users Group P.O. Box 9506 Providence, RI 02940 tug@math.ams.com 401-751-7760 -dh (and you really should think about becoming a TUG member. Especially if you're outside of North America. The surcharge is gone.) -dh