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mado · Post by **mado** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 6:11 am

\string was briefly explained on https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Pla ... uence_name and https://www.tug.org/utilities/plain/cseq.html#string-rp, but I couldn't find an authoritative reference on TeX and LaTeX that also contains an explanation on \string.

Can anyone point me to a comprehensive or authoritative reference manual?

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Post by **Johannes_B** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 10:39 am

Welcome,

you have to differentiate between TeX and LaTeX. What you are obviously looking for is the reference manual for TeX, which is cited in one of your links. The TeXbook by Knuth himself can be ordered online.

The source of the book can be found on the internet. You can read it to study the syntax of TeX, but you are not allowed to compile the source.

mado · Post by **mado** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 3:32 pm

Thanks for the answer.

Post by **Stefan Kottwitz** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 11:15 pm

There's a very good reference which is also freely available online: TeX by Topic. If you have a good local TeX installation, typing "texdoc texbytopic" at the command prompt could already open it. It works for me with TeX Live.

Stefan

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