Digital Typography

Author:   Donald E. Knuth (Stanford University, California)
Publisher:   Centre for the Study of Language & Information
Volume:   78
ISBN:  

9781575860107


Pages:   402
Publication Date:   01 June 1998
Format:   Paperback
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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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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:   01 June 1998
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
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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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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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