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...fact, TeX works like a computer programming language, except that the commands instruct the system on how to format a particular section of text rather than, for example, how to compute pi to the one trillionth decimal...
...more than 600 basic commands. Most of them are named, sometimes abbreviated, after their functions. For example, the command "\centerline" centers the line of text that follows it. "\bf" means the words should be typeset in bold face like this...
...When you choose a text for a course, there is no way of knowing how many books the publishers have," said Associate Professor of Government and Social Studies Houchang Chehabi, who teaches the Core course on Iran...
...dressing. What everyone wants to know is not why Katherine Power robbed a bank in 1970 -- we know: she wanted to save the world -- but why she finally gave it up in 1993. It is her account of the return that yields the one truly memorable line in this text, the one historians will ponder to their benefit: "I know that I must answer this accusation from the past, in order to live with full authenticity in the present...
After suffering through the chaotic text stacks and creeping lines, the truth is that you might not find the book you need at the Coop...