Everything about Computers and Typesetting
1986 book series on digital typography by American computer scientist Donald Knuth
Computers and Typesetting is a 5-volume set of books by Donald Knuth published in 1986 describing the TeX and Metafont systems for digital typography. Knuth's computers and typesetting project was the result of his frustration with the lack of decent software for the typesetting of mathematical and technical documents. The results of this project include TeX for typesetting, Metafont for font construction and the Computer Modern typefaces that are the default fonts used by TeX. In the series of five books Knuth not only describes the TeX and Metafont languages, he also describes and documents the source code of the TeX and Metafont interpreters, and the source code for the Computer Modern fonts used by TeX. The book set stands as a tour de force demonstration of literate programming. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Computers and TypesettingA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: A typographic workbookThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: COMPUTER TYPESETTING AND INFORMATIONCited 1 times
- Go sideways: Computer ModernA closely related topic
- Go sideways: MetafontA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
📚 Books worth reading
A typographic workbookKate Clair, Cynthia Busic-Snyder · 2005
METAFONTDonald Knuth · 1986
Computer TypeMichael Rogondino · 1991
TypeTom Carnase, Baruch Gorkin · 1995- 📕Design information on text composition in TeluguP. V. H. M. L. Narasimham · 1981
Electronic publishing, artistic imaging, and digital typographyInternational Conference on Electronic Publishing, Document Manipulation, and Typography (7th 1998 Saint-Malo, France) · 1998
The non-designer's type bookRobin Williams · 1998
Printer's type in the twentieth centuryRichard Southall · 2005
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