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Author:   Donald E. Knuth (Stanford University, California)
Publisher:   Centre for the Study of Language & Information
Imprint:   Centre for the Study of Language & Information
Volume:   78
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 3.90cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.930kg
ISBN:  

9781575860107

ISBN 10:   1575860104
Pages:   402
Publication Date:   13 March 1999
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
Availability:   Awaiting stock  
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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.

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.'

Author Information

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.

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