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From www.amazon.com (17 march 1997)
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          The Latex Graphics Companion : Illustrating Documents With Tex and
          Postscript (Tools and Techniques for Computer Typesetting Series)

by Michel Goossens, Sebastian Rahtz, frank Mittelbach

Paperback, 608 pages
List: $39.76 -- Amazon.com Price: $39.76
Published by Addison-Wesley Pub Co
Publication date: March 1,1997
ISBN: 0201854694

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Book Description:
This handy reference describes techniques and tricks needed to illustrate
LaTeX documents, and answers common user questions about graphics and
PostScript fonts. It provides the first full description of the standard
LaTeX color and graphics packages, and shows how you can combine TeX and
PostScript capabilities to produce beautifully illustrated pages. Following
the successful format of The LaTeX Companion, this new book is an invaluable
LaTeX resource for people incorporating pictures into text.

You will learn how to: incorporate graphic files into a LaTeX document,
program technical diagrams using several differant languages, produce color
pictures, achieve special effects with fragments of embedded PostScript, and
make high-quality music scores and games diagrams.

You will find detailed descriptions of: important packages like Xy-pic,
PSTricks, and METAPOST; the standard LaTeX color and graphics packages;
PostScript fonts and how to use them in LaTeX; the dvips dvi to PostScript
driver; and Ghostscript, the free interpreter that lets you view or print
PostScript files even if you do not have a PostScript printer.

The authors examine a number of packages that extend or modify LaTeX's basic
illustration features, and present hundreds of examples of useful solutions
to graphics and font problems. In addition to packages for general drawing,
the book also presents specific tools for mathematicians, physicists,
chemists, engineers, and people interested in games and music typesetting.

All the packages and programs described in this book are freely available in
public software archives, and the source code for all examples has been
placed on CTAN, the TeX archives (details on page 497).

Synopsis:
Complementing The Latex Companion, this new graphics companion book
addresses one of the most common needs among users of the LaTeX typesetting
system: the incorporation of graphics into text. In addition to packages for
general drawing, the book also describes more specific tools for
mathematicians, physicists, chemists, engineers, and people interested in
business graphics, games and music typesetting.

About the Author:
Michael Goossens is the President of the TeX Users Group (TUG) and a
co-author of The LaTeX Companion. His work responsibilities have included
LaTeX support for other scientists. Sebastian Rahtz is the Secretary of TUG,
a cofounder of the CTAN archives, and the creator of the TeX Live CD-ROM.
Frank Mittelbach is the Manager of the LaTeX3 Project, in which capacity he
oversaw the release of LaTeX2e. He, too, is a coauthor of The LaTeX
Companion, as well as the editor of a series of publications on Tools and
Techniques for Computer Typesetting.
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