A survey of TeX, its flavors, and its twin sister Metafont, within the context of Electronic Publishing, is given.
1.1 Introduction
Conventions and notations
1.2 TeX etc. tools
Working environments
Installation
Lifetime
1.3 Importance
The advantages
Disadvantages
1.4 TeX's flavors
manmac.tex
LaTeX
AMSTeX/LaTeX
LAMSTeX
In summary
1.5 TeX's drivers
1.6 TeX and fonts
Outline fonts
Font markup
Which fonts can be used with TeX?
And what about color?
1.7 Descriptive markup
1.8 TeX and its author
1.9 TeX and its users
The user groups
Add-ons
1.10 TeX and the publishers
The American Mathematical Society
The American Physical Society
MIR
JTUG?
1.11 TeX and other Electronic Publishing tools
TeX and intelligent editors
Wordwhatever and TeX?
Troff or TeX?
SGML and TeX?
SGML and Hypermedia?
TeX within the context of Electronic Publishing
1.12 Trends
Prophecy