Digital Typography (Volume 78) (Lecture Notes) - Hardcover

Knuth, Donald E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1575860112 ISBN 13: 9781575860114

Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf, 1998

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description

One of the foremost figures in the field of mathematical sciences, Knuth has written papers which are widely referenced and stand as milestones of development over a wide range of topics. In this collection, the second in the series, Knuth explores the relationship between computers and typography.

Review

'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.'

Edition details

• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1575860112
• ISBN 13: 9781575860114
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 685