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Handbook of Typography for the Mathematical Sciences

by Steven G. Krantz
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Overview

You know mathematics. You know how to write mathematics. But do you know how to produce clean, clear, well-formatted manuscripts for publication? Do you speak the language of publishers, typesetters, graphics designers, and copy editors?

Your page design-the style and format of theorems and equations, running heads and section headings, page breaks, fonts, and spacing-makes the difference between, awkward, hard-to-read publications and coherent, professional ones. The Handbook of Typography for the Mathematical Sciences is your key to exercising control over how your books and articles look, read, and ultimately communicate your ideas.

Focusing on TeX, today's medium of choice for producing mathematical documents, the author illuminates all of the issues associated with page design and seeing your manuscript smoothly and accurately through each step of its publication.

  • Learn how to format, edit, and layout a page
  • Examine a variety of graphics options: Postscript®, bitmaps, *.jpg, *.gif, and *.pdf files
  • Discover powerful tools available for indexing, bibliographies, tables, and diagrams
  • Access a compendium of all TeX commands commonly used in mathematical writing
  • Explore ways to include diskettes, source code, or software available on the Internet with you publications

Becoming acquainted with this material will make you a well-informed author equipped to deal with publishers, compositors, editors, and typesetters, with TeX consultants, copy editors, and graphics designers-an author who has a better understanding of the publishing process and is able to create better mathematics books.

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This book explains how to effectively translate handwritten mathematical notation into clean, well-formatted manuscripts for publication. Focusing on TEX, the computer application of choice for producing mathematical, scientific, and engineering documents, Krantz (mathematics, Washington U.) describes how to handle everything from the big picture (formatting, editing and laying out a page) to the minute (correct typographical proofing notation). While it explains how to use many of the program's functions, this book is not written as a TEX manual but rather as tool to allow anybody to learn TEX's capabilities. Includes information using bitmaps, .jpeg, .gif and .pdf files and discussions of web publishing with PostScript and Acrobat. Well laid out for reference, with extensive appendices and a glossary. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Book Details

Published
August 31, 2000
Publisher
Boca Raton : Chapman & Hall/CRC, c2001.
Pages
192
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781584881490

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