Digital Typography

710 Pages·33.504 MB·English

by  Donald E. Knuth

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Digital
typography
TeX is a trademark of the American Mathematical Society.
METRFONT is a trademark of Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.
PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
Copyright ©1999
Center for the Study of Language and Information
Leland Stanford Junior University
Printed in Canada
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Knuth, Donald Ervin, 1938-
Digital typography / Donald E. Knuth.
xvi,685 p. 23 cm. — (CSLI lecture notes ; no. 78)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-57586-011-2 (cloth : alk. paper) —
ISBN 1-57586-010-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Printing—Data processing. 2. Computerized typesetting.
3. Computer fonts. 4. TeX (Computer system). 5. METAFONT.
I. Title. II. Series.
Z249.3.K59 1998
686.2'2544536—DC21 98-27331
CIP
to my father,
Ervin Knuth (1912-1974),
for his lifetime of sERVice
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Contents
1 Digital Typography 1
2 Mathematical Typography 19
3 Breaking Paragraphs Into Lines 67
4 Mixing Right-to-Left Texts with Left-to-Right Texts 157
5 Recipes and Fractions 177
6 The TRX Logo in Various Fonts 181
7 Printing Out Selected Pages 183
8 Macros for Jill 185
9 Problem for a Saturday Morning 195
10 Exercises for TgX; The Program 197
11 Mini-Indexes for Literate Programs 225
12 Virtual Fonts: More Fun for Grand Wizards 247
13 The Letter S 263
14 My First Experience with Indian Scripts 285
15 The Concept of a Meta-Font 289
16 Lessons Learned from METRFONT 315
17 AMS Euler—A New Typeface for Mathematics 339
18 Typesetting Concrete Mathematics 367
19 A Course on METRFONT Programming 379
20 A Punk Meta-Font 391
21 Fonts for Digital Halftones 415
22 Digital Halftones by Dot Diffusion 449
23 A Note on Digital Angles 473
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viii Digital Typography
24 TEXDR.AFT 481
25 TEX.ONE 505
26 Incunabula 533
27 Icons for and METflFONT 547
28 Computers and Typesetting 555
29 The New Versions of T^ and METflFONT 563
30 The Future of TgX and METflFONT 571
31 Questions and Answers, I 573
32 Questions and Answers, II 601
33 Questions and Answers, III 625
34 The Final Errors of TgX 655
Index 663