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

Digital Typography

Donald E. Knuth (Stanford University, California)

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English
Centre for the Study of Language & Information
01 June 1998
Desktop publishing
Series: Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes
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 a legacy to all the work he has done on typography. When he thought he would take a few years' leave from his main work on the art of computer programming, as is well known, the short typographic detour lasted more than a decade. When type designers, punch cutters, typographers, book historians, and scholars visited the University during this period, 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 himself could have produced.
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Imprint:   Centre for the Study of Language & Information
Country of Publication:   United States
Volume:   78
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 138mm,  Spine: 39mm
Weight:   930g
ISBN:   9781575860107
ISBN 10:   1575860104
Series:   Center for the Study of Language and Information Publication Lecture Notes
Pages:   402
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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.

Donald E. Knuth is one of the world's pre-eminent computer scientists, whose works have had a profound influence on the subject since the publication in 1968 of the first volume of The Art of Computer Programming. Knuth created TeX, a language for typesetting mathematical and scientific texts, and METAFONT, a computer software system for alphabet design. He is professor emeritus at Stanford University.

Reviews for Digital Typography

'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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