tom@ssd.csd.harris.com (Tom Horsley) (02/07/91)
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 :-).
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+====================================================================+jansteen@cwi.nl (Jan van der Steen) (02/08/91)
tom@ssd.csd.harris.com (Tom Horsley) writes: >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 :-). To give this effort a little help I included the (259) TeX primitives and all string tokens in plain.tex which were not in ispell's dictionary (658). This file should also be useful to people when added to their private dictionary while spelling TeX documents. ----------------------------- Primitives defined in TeX.web: ----------------------------- abovedisplayshortskip abovedisplayskip abovewithdelims adjdemerits afterassignment aftergroup atopwithdelims baselineskip batchmode begingroup belowdisplayshortskip belowdisplayskip binoppenalty botmark boxmaxdepth brokenpenalty catcode chardef cleaders closein closeout clubpenalty countdef cr crcr csname deadcycles def defaulthyphenchar defaultskewchar delcode delimiterfactor delimitershortfall dimen dimendef displayindent displaylimits displaystyle displaywidowpenalty displaywidth doublehyphendemerits dp edef emergencystretch endcsname endgroup endinput endlinechar eqno errhelp errmessage errorcontextlines errorstopmode escapechar everycr everydisplay everyhbox everyjob everymath everypar everyvbox exhyphenpenalty expandafter fam fi finalhyphendemerits firstmark floatingpenalty fontdimen fontname futurelet gdef globaldefs halign hangafter hangindent hbadness hbox hfil hfill hfilneg hfuzz hoffset holdinginserts hrule hsize hskip hss ht hyphenation hyphenchar hyphenpenalty ifcase ifcat ifdim ifeof iffalse ifhbox ifhmode ifinner ifmmode ifnum ifodd iftrue ifvbox ifvmode ifvoid ifx ignorespaces inputlineno insertpenalties interlinepenalty jobname lastbox lastkern lastpenalty lastskip lccode lefthyphenmin leftskip leqno linepenalty lineskip lineskiplimit lowercase mag mathaccent mathbin mathchar mathchardef mathchoice mathclose mathcode mathinner mathop mathopen mathord mathpunct mathrel mathsurround maxdeadcycles maxdepth medmuskip mkern moveleft moveright mskip muskip muskipdef newlinechar noalign noboundary noexpand noindent nolimits nonscript nonstopmode nulldelimiterspace nullfont openin openout outputpenalty overfullrule overline overwithdelims pagedepth pagefilllstretch pagefillstretch pagefilstretch pagegoal pageshrink pagestretch pagetotal parfillskip parindent parshape parskip postdisplaypenalty predisplaypenalty predisplaysize pretolerance prevdepth prevgraf relpenalty righthyphenmin rightskip romannumeral scriptfont scriptscriptfont scriptscriptstyle scriptspace scriptstyle scrollmode setbox setlanguage sfcode shipout showbox showboxbreadth showboxdepth showlists showthe skewchar skipdef spacefactor spaceskip splitbotmark splitfirstmark splitmaxdepth splittopskip tabskip textfont textstyle thickmuskip thinmuskip toks toksdef topmark topskip tracingcommands tracinglostchars tracingmacros tracingonline tracingoutput tracingpages tracingparagraphs tracingrestores tracingstats uccode uchyph unhbox unhcopy unkern unpenalty unskip unvbox unvcopy uppercase vadjust valign vbadness vbox vcenter vfil vfill vfilneg vfuzz voffset vrule vsize vskip vsplit vss vtop wd widowpenalty xdef xleaders xspaceskip ----------------------------- Tokens found in plain.tex: ----------------------------- a aa abovedisplayshortskip abovedisplayskip adjdemerits advancepageno ae afterassignment aftergroup alloc allocationnumber allowbreak amalg approx arg arrowvert ast asymp atopwithdelims b baselineskip bb bbox begingroup beginsection belowdisplayshortskip belowdisplayskip bf bffam bgroup bigbreak bigcap bigcirc bigcup bigg biggl biggm biggr bigl bigm bigodot bigoplus bigotimes bigr bigskip bigskipamount bigsqcup bigtriangledown bigtriangleup biguplus bigvee bigwedge binoppenalty bmod bordermatrix bot bowtie boxdef boxmaxdepth braceld bracelu bracerd braceru bracevert brack brokenpenalty buildrel c catcode catcoded catcodes cclv cclvi cdot cdotp cdots ch chardef circ ck cleaders cleartabs clubpenalty clubsuit cmbsy cmbx cmcsc cmdunh cmex cmmi cmmib cmr cmsl cmsltt cmss cmssbx cmssi cmssq cmssqi cmsy cmti cmtt cmu cong coprod coth countdef cr crcr crfalse crtrue csc csname dag dashv ddag ddagger ddot ddots def defaulthyphenchar defaultskewchar deg delcode delcodes delimiterfactor delimitershortfall det diamondsuit dimen dimendef displ displayindent displaylines displaystyle displaywidowpenalty displaywidth div dospecials dosupereject doteq dotfill dotless doublehyphendemerits downarrow downbracefill dp dt dunhill edef egroup emptyset emx endcsname endgraf endgroup endinsert endline endlinechar enskip enspace eqalign eqalignno equiv errmessage errorcontextlines errorstopmode escapechar everycr ex exhyphenpenalty exp expandafter fam fi fil filbreak finalhyphendemerits finph finsm fivebf fivei fiverm fivesy floatingpenalty fmtname fmtversion fo foo foofalse footins footline footnoterule footrue footstrut forall formfeed frenchspacing futurelet gdef gefalse geq getrue gg ggedbottom ggedbottomfalse ggedbottomtrue globaldefs goodbreak halign hangafter hangindent hbadness hbar hbox heartsuit hfil hfill hfuzz hgl hglue hideskip hidewidth hoffset holdinginserts hom hookleftarrow hookrightarrow hphantom hrule hrulefill hsize hskip hss ht hyphenation hyphenpenalty i ialign ifcase ifcat ifdim ifdt iff iffalse iffoo ifh ifhmode ifmmode ifnum ifp ifr iftrue ifus ifv ifvoid ifx ignorespaces im imath inf info infty initex ins insc insertpenalties int interdisplaylinepenalty interfootnotelinepenalty interlinepenalty intop itemitem itfam jmath joinrel ker ketabbox langle lastbox lastskip lbrace lbrack lccode lceil ldot ldotp ldots le leavevmode leftarrow leftarrowfill leftharpoondown leftharpoonup lefthyphenmin leftline leftrightarrow leftskip leq leqalignno lfloor lg lgroup lhook lign lim liminf limsup linefeed linepenalty lineskip lineskiplimit ll llap lmoustache ln lnot logo longleftarrow longleftrightarrow longmapsto longrightarrow lor lowercase lq mag magstep magstephalf makefootline makeheadline makeph makesm manfnt mapsto mapstochar mathaccent mathbin mathchar mathchardef mathchoice mathclose mathcode mathhexbox mathinner mathop mathopen mathord mathpalette mathph mathrel mathsm mathstrut mathsurround maxdeadcycles maxdepth maxdimen medbreak medmuskip medskip medskipamount metafont midfalse midinsert midtrue min mkern mm mod mp mscount mskip muh multispan muskip muskipdef n nabla ncel nearrow neg negthinspace neq newbox newcount newdimen newfam newhelp newif newinsert newlanguage newlinechar newmuskip newread newskip newtoks newwrite ni ninerm nlhyphen noalign nobreak noexpand noindent nointerlineskip nolimits nonfrenchspacing nopagenumbers normalbaselines normalbaselineskip normalbottom normallineskip normallineskiplimit nother notin nt nulldelimiterspace nwarrow nxt o oalign obeylines obeyspaces odot oe offinterlineskip ointop oldstyle ominus ooalign openup oplus oslash otimes outputpenalty overbrace overfullrule overleftarrow overrightarrow pagebody pagecontents pagegoal pageinsert pageno pageshrink pagetotal parfillskip parindent parskip penup perp pfalse ph plainoutput pmatrix pmod postdisplaypenalty pr prec preceq predisplaypenalty predisplaysize preloaded preloading pretolerance prevdepth propto pt ptrue q qquad raggedbottom raggedright rangle rbrace rbrack rceil relbar relpenalty removelastskip renwd rfloor rgroup rhook rightarrow rightarrowfill rightharpoondown rightharpoonup righthyphenmin rightleftharpoons rightline rightskip rlap rlh rm rmoustache romannumeral rootbox rq sb scriptfont scriptscriptfont scriptscriptstyle scriptspace scriptstyle searrow setbox setminus sett settabs sevenbf seveni sevenrm sevensy sf sfcode sh shipout showboxbreadth showboxdepth showhyphens sim simeq sixt skewchar skipdef skippable sl slfam smallbreak smallint smallskip smallskipamount sp spacefactor spaceskip spadesuit splitmaxdepth splittopskip sqcap sqcup sqrt sqsubseteq sqsupseteq ss strutbox subpage subseteq succ succeq supereject supset supseteq surd swarrow tabalign tabsdone tabskip tabsyet tcols tenbf tenex teni tenit tenrm tensl tensy tentt tex texbook textfont textindent textstyle thickmuskip thinmuskip thinspace thr toks toksdef topglue topins topinsert topskip tracingall tracingcommands tracinglostchars tracingmacros tracingonline tracingoutput tracingpages tracingparagraphs tracingrestores tracingstats triangleleft triangleright truein tt ttfam ttraggedright tw u uccode uchyph underbar underbrace unhbox unhcopy unskip unslanted unt unvbox unvcopy uparrow upbracefill updownarrow uplus uppercase v varepsilon varphi varpi varrho varsigma vartheta vbadness vbox vcenter vdash vdots vec vereq vert vfil vfill vfilneg vfootnote vfuzz vgl vglue voffset voidb vphantom vrule vsize vskip vss vtop wd widehat widetilde widowpenalty wlog wp wr x xspaceskip xx y z -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Jan van der Steen jansteen@cwi.nl Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) (02/08/91)
In article <TOM.91Feb7083913@hcx2.ssd.csd.harris.com> 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
Sebastian
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Southampton S09 5NH, UK S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp (uucp)tom@ssd.csd.harris.com (Tom Horsley) (02/11/91)
I would like to thank the several people who sent me email directing me to
the book ``Tex for the Impatient''. I don't know how much help this book
would be to someone who is actually `Impatient' (:-), but the largest chunk
of the book is exactly the sort of reference I was looking for.
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+====================================================================+dhosek@linus.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) (02/12/91)
In article <SPQR.91Feb8082345@manutius.ecs.soton.ac.uk>, spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) writes: > In article <TOM.91Feb7083913@hcx2.ssd.csd.harris.com> 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