TeX Reference Manual

1. Families and Primitive Control Sequences.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 The Box Family.- 1.3 The Character Family.- 1.4 The Debugging Family.- 1.5 The File I/O Family.- 1.6 The Fonts Family.- 1.7 The Glue Family.- 1.8 The Hyphenation Family.- 1.9 The Inserts Family.- 1.10 The Job Family.- 1.11 The Kern Family.- 1.12 The Logic Family.- 1.13 The Macro Family.- 1.14 The Marks Family.- 1.15 The Math Family.- 1.16 The Page Family.- 1.17 The Paragraph Family.- 1.18 The Penalties Family.- 1.19 The Registers Family.- 1.20 The Tables Family.- 2. Reference Pages for the Primitives.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 The References Pages.- Appendix A. Typesetting Verbatim Material.- A.l Introduction.- A.2 In-line Verbatim.- A.3 Multi-line Verbatim.- A.4 Limitations to Typesetting Verbatim Material.- A. 5 Automatic Line Numbering and Verbatim.- Appendix B. Working with PostScript Fonts.- B.l Introduction.- B.2 Back-end Font Macros.- B.3 Font File Names and Encoding Vectors.- B.4 Preparing Font Tables.- Appendix C. Typesetting Material in Two Columns.- G.l Introduction.- G.2 Two-Column Macros.- G.3 Index Preparation.

"This is a good reference for people who have a bit of plain TeX under their belts, as the examples mix primitives and plain rather freelyIt is worth having in your reference library, particularly if you use plainTeX, or have to delve into TeX's innards for any reason."
(Stephen Moye, American Mathematical Society)