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I just received my copy of the Computers & Typesetting Millennium Edition Boxed Set. It’s comprised of five volumes: The TeXbook, describing the operation of the TeX typesetting system; TeX: The Program, the complete, annotated source to TeX (with errata & corrections); The METAFONTbook, describing the operation of the METAFONT font description system; METAFONT: The Program, the complete, annotated source to METAFONT; and Computer Modern Typefaces, which holds the entire source to the Computer Modern family of fonts, including Roman, Bold, Italic, Sans-Serif and Monospaced fonts. I am a happy geek today!

I just discovered a handy LaTeX reference, Formatting Information: A Beginner’s Introduction to Typesetting with LaTeX. LaTeX, of course, is just about the best document preparation and typesetting system ever, capable of producing professional-quality output easily.