The metafont book Donald E. Knuth

By:

Knuth, Donald Ervin

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Computers and Typesetting SeriesPublication details: Reading Addison-Wesley 1986Description: xi, 361 p ill. 24 cmISBN:

0201134454 (hard)
0201134446 (soft)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

686.2 K6M3

Summary: METAFONT is a system for the design of symbols and alphabetic characters suited to raster-based devices that print or display text. The construction of a typeface is an art form and this manual is written for people who wish to advance the quality of mathematical typesetting. The METAFONTbook enables readers, with only minimal computer science or word processing experience, to master the basic as well as the more advanced features of METAFONT programming. With this manual, readers will learn how to write a program using METAFONT that can customize a type design that already exists, create an entire alphabet from scratch, and create logos or special symbols.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Ahmedabad	Non-fiction	686.2 K6M3 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		185836

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Includes index.

METAFONT is a system for the design of symbols and alphabetic characters suited to raster-based devices that print or display text. The construction of a typeface is an art form and this manual is written for people who wish to advance the quality of mathematical typesetting. The METAFONTbook enables readers, with only minimal computer science or word processing experience, to master the basic as well as the more advanced features of METAFONT programming. With this manual, readers will learn how to write a program using METAFONT that can customize a type design that already exists, create an entire alphabet from scratch, and create logos or special symbols.

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