Take the tour ×  I wanted to know if someone could point me to a
reference where I could learn more about the \the command.
Searching for "the" has been, without surprise, entirely
unproductive. Even consulting "comprehensive" LaTeX
command/macro lists has been unfruitful.  This blog is the only
treatment of the subject that I could find, but it was not very
informative.  share|improve this question I don't know where you
searched, but there is this book by this guy. –  Martin Schröder
Dec 18 '11 at 14:30 How is finding this question going to be
easier now? :D –  badp Dec 18 '11 at 17:37 @MartinScharrer:
Could we add some tag like tex-core or latex-kernel here? I
don't know what part comes from where, but \the must come from
somewhere. (Feel free to delete this comment of mine later.) – 
doncherry Oct 4 '12 at 14:41 add comment  2 Answers  up vote 47
down vote accepted  The mighty \the  TeX has many registers and
internal parameters, whose list can be found in the TeXbook
(supplemented by the e-TeX manual and