Digital Typography

Volume 78

By: Donald E. Knuth

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Paperback | 1 January 1998 | Edition Number 1

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Donald Knuth's influence in computer science ranges from the invention of literate programming to the development of the TeX programming language. One of the foremost figures in the field of mathematical sciences, Knuth has written papers which stand as milestones of development over a wide range of topics. In this collection, the second in the series, Knuth explores the relationship between computers and typography. The present volume, in the words of the author, is the legacy of all the work he has done on typography. When type designers, punch cutters, typographers, book historians, and scholars visited the University while Knuth was working in this field, it gave to Stanford what some consider to be its golden age of digital typography. By the author's own admission, the present work is one of the most difficult books that he has prepared. This is truly a work that only Knuth could have produced.

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'This wonderful new book contains Don Knuth's articles on TeX and METAFONT, and includes important archival material ... Reading this book is like holding in your hand twenty years of history. My view of TeX, and of the Computer Modern fonts that I use every day, has been changed completely by this book.'

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Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Graphical & Digital Media Applications Desktop Publishing Arts & Entertainment Design, Industrial & Commercial Arts, Illustration Typography & Lettering Computer Science Information Technology General Issue Ethical & Social Aspects of IT

Digital typography
Mathematical typography
Breaking paragraphs into lines
Mixing right-to-left texts with left-to-right texts
Recipes and fractions
The TeX logo in various fonts
Printing out selected pages
Macros for Jill
Problem for a Saturday morning
Exercises for TeX: the program
Mini-indexes for literate programs
Virtual fonts: more fun for Grand Wizards
The letter S
My first experience with Indian scripts
The concept of a meta-font
Lessons learned from MetaFont
AMS Euler - a new typeface for mathematics
Typesetting concrete mathematics
A course on MetaFont programming
A punk meta-font
Fonts for digital halftones
Digital halftones by Dot diffusion
A note on digital angles
TEXDR.AFT
TEX.ONE
TeX Incunabula
Icons for TeX and MetaFont
Computers and typesetting
The new versions of TeX and MetaFont
The future of TeX and MetaFont
Questions and answers, I
Questions and answers, II
Questions and answers, III
Index
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