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Digital Typography Donald E. Knuth (Stanford University, California)

Digital Typography By Donald E. Knuth (Stanford University, California)

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In this second collection in the series, Knuth explores the relationship between computers and typography.

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Digital Typography Summary

Digital Typography by Donald E. Knuth (Stanford University, California)

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.

Digital Typography Reviews

'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.'

Table of Contents

1. Digital typography; 2. Mathematical typography; 3. Breaking paragraphs into lines; 4. Mixing right-to-left texts with left-to-right texts; 5. Recipes and fractions; 6. The TeX logo in various fonts; 7. Printing out selected pages; 8. Macros for Jill; 9. Problem for a Saturday morning; 10. Exercises for TeX: the program; 11. Mini-indexes for literate programs; 12. Virtual fonts: more fun for Grand Wizards; 13. The letter S; 14. My first experience with Indian scripts; 15. The concept of a meta-font; 16. Lessons learned from MetaFont; 17. AMS Euler - a new typeface for mathematics; 18. Typesetting concrete mathematics; 19. A course on MetaFont programming; 20. A punk meta-font; 21. Fonts for digital halftones; 22. Digital halftones by Dot diffusion; 23. A note on digital angles; 24. TEXDR.AFT; 25. TEX.ONE; 26. TeX Incunabula; 27. Icons for TeX and MetaFont; 28. Computers and typesetting; 29. The new versions of TeX and MetaFont; 30. The future of TeX and MetaFont; 31. Questions and answers, I; 32. Questions and answers, II; 33. Questions and answers, III; Index.

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CIN1575860104VG
9781575860107
1575860104
Digital Typography by Donald E. Knuth (Stanford University, California)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Centre for the Study of Language & Information
1998-06-01
402
N/A
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