Digital typography
Knuth's influence in computer science ranges from the invention of literate programming to the development of the TeX programming language. In this collection, he explores the relationship between computers and typography
Print Book, English, ©1999
CSLI Publications, Stanford, Calif., ©1999
CSLI lecture notes, no. 78
xv, 685 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9781575860114, 9781575860107, 1575860112, 1575860104
39281946
| 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. |