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There are 510 physical pages in the camera-ready copy (reduced from 512 pages in the final pass over corrections). That includes 22 pages of front-matter (table of contents, list of tables, preface, half title and title page, and so on), the bibliography, and the index. Pages in the main matter of the book — that is the part excluding front and back matter — are numbered 1 through 466. The bibliography goes from page 467 through 478 (and is by no means comprehensive — we tried to cite only a handful of good starting points for each topic). The index runs from page 479 through page 487 (which is really page 509 because front-matter has its own page numbering). Presses print in "signatures" of 16 or 32 pages, so the physical book will have 512 pages.

The book was typeset in pdfLaTeX, which I think would not have been possible without The LaTeX Companion by Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach & Alexander Samarin. I was using the first edition, but Amazon now lists a second edition. It would be lovely to have a good word processor that was really up to the task, but the only one I know that even comes close is FrameMaker, which has been more-or-less orphaned by Adobe. Fortunately TeXShop by Richard Koch, Max Horn, and Dirk Olmes made life with a document compiler sufficiently interactive.