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<p><span class="bold"><b>About this Book</b></span></p>
<p>This is an <span class="emphasis"><em>alpha</em></span>
edition of this book. This version may contain glaring
inconsistencies, missing sections, and other misfeatures
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<p><span class="bold"><b>About the Author</b></span></p>
<p>Norm Walsh is a Production Tools Specialist at O'Reilly
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Amherst where he earned his master's degree in computer
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<p>Besides maintaining a number of TeX and font-related
resources on the Net, Norm enjoys bicycling, herpetology,
prestidigitation, and browsing record and book stores. Norm
lives in Boxborough, MA with his wife Deborah, two cats, a
box turtle, two toads, and two frogs.</p>
<p><span class="bold"><b>Colophon</b></span></p>
<p>Our look is the result of reader comments, our own
experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels.</p>
<p>Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to
technical topics, breathing personality and life into
potentially dry subjects. <span class="sc">UNIX</span> and
its attendant programs can be unruly beasts. Nutshell
Handbooks help you tame them.</p>
<p>The animal featured on the cover of <i>Making TeX Work</i>
is the European garden spider. Garden spiders are orb
weavers, known for their intricate orb-shaped webs. Web
building is a complex process: support lines are constructed
first; then the radial lines; and finally the spiraling
strands are spun from the center outward. Without training
from adults, even the tiniest just-hatched spiderlings are
able to spin silk and weave webs. Another orb weaver, <span
class="emphasis"><em>nephila</em></span>, builds an extremely
thick and strong web, up to eight feet in diameter. People in
Southeast Asia have found an interesting use for this
spider's web—they bend a pliable stick into a loop and
pass it through the large web, resulting in a surprisingly
strong and effective fishing net!</p>
<p>Spiders produce silk from glands called spinnerets. Orb
weavers can have three or four pairs of these glands, each
producing different textures of silk: non-stick silk for the
radial web lines, and sticky silk for the spiraling strands.
Some spiders even produce an ultraviolet silk to attract
insects. Spider silk, a super protein that hardens as it is
stretched from the spinnerets, may look delicate but it is
unbelievably tough. The relative tension necessary to break
it is far greater than for steel.</p>
<p>When finished with the construction of its web, the garden
spider will often go to the center, hang upside down, and
wait for a flying or jumping insect to become ensnared.
Having poor eyesight, orb weavers rely on a highly-developed
sense of touch. When an insect because caught in th web and
struggles, the spider is alerted by the vibrations. It rushes
tout to secure its prey, usually wrapping it in silk. A
poison is injected into the victim, paralyzing it and
converting the contents of its body to a liquid. The spider
returns later to insert its tube-like fangs and suck up its
meal.</p>
<p>The garden spider's profound sense of touch has another
purpose: it provides male spiders with a channel to
communicate with females. Before climbing onto the female's
web, the male taps out a special message. Then he cautiously
crawls toward his mate—a perilous task, for he is
always in danger of being mistaken for prey. It is commonly
thought that the female spider kills and eats the male after
mating, but this is an exaggeration. The male, who stops
eating during his mate-hunting ordeal, generally dies of
malnourishment and exhaustion.</p>
<p>Spiders are similar to, but not the same as insects. They
belong to the class <span
class="emphasis"><em>Arachnida</em></span>, named after
Arachne, a maiden in Greek mythology. She defeated the
goddess Athena in a weaving contest. In a fury of anger,
Athena destroyed Arachne's weaving and beat the girl about
the head. In utter disgrace, Arachne hanged herself. A
regretful Athena changed Arachne into a spider so that she
could weave forever.</p>
<p>While they are certainly not going to win any popularity
contests, spiders' insect-eating habits are extremely helpful
to humans. Every year, billions of spiders do away with a
large number of disease-carrying and crop-destroying insects.
If every spider ate just one a day for a year, those insects,
piled in one spot, would weigh as much as 50 million people.
Spiders are, by far, the most important predator of insects
in our world.</p>
<p>Edie Freedman designed this cover and the entire UNIX
bestiary that appears on other Nutshell Handbooks. The beasts
themselves are adapted from nineteenth century engravings
from the Dover Pictorial Archive. The cover layout was
produced with QuarkXPress 3.1 using the ITC Garamond
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<p>The inside layout was designed by Edie Freedman and
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