[Tex/LaTex] the largest work that has been published using LaTeX

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We have showcases of beautiful works using LaTeX. We have talked about beautiful tables, beautiful thesis, beautiful page headers, even beautiful labels.

I am curious to know, what is the largest work that has been handled using LaTeX? Those with the most number of pages are the obvious choices. But perhaps we will also want to consider to ones with most number of illustrations.

Here are a few toppers that I could find.

  1. TikZ (PGD) Manual, 1161 pages, impressive number of graphics.
  2. Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, and Clifford Stein, 1312 pages, many line drawings.
  3. Light and Matter by Ben Crowell, 1032 page, many line drawings and photos.

If possible, please answer in elaboration, with the related stories, motivations, obstacles, and preferably links.

Best Answer

The perhaps biggest document set with LaTeX, that I am aware of is Christoph Schiller's Mountain Motion collection. It consist of 6 volumes, with 566 + 376 + 430 + 286 + 442 + 456 = 2556 pages in total.

Another extensive work, entirely typeset in TeX is Donald Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming. Without the supplemental material the volumes 1-4A amount to 650+20 + 762+14 + 780+14 + 883+16 = 3139 pages in total.