A Beginner's Book of TEX (Paperback, 1st ed. 1991. Corr. 3rd printing 1995)

The last two decades have witnessed a revolution in the realm of typography, with the virtual disappearance of hot-lead typesetting in favor of the so-called digital typesetting. The principle behind the new technology is simple: imagine a very fine mesh superimposed on a sheet of paper. Digital typesetting consists in darkening the appropriate pixels (tiny squares) of this mesh, in patterns corresponding to each character and symbol of the text being set. The actual darkening is done by some printing device, say a laser printer or phototypesetter, which must be told exactly where the ink should go. Since the mesh is very fine-the dashes surrounding this sentence are some six pixels thick, and more than 200 pixels long-the printer can only be controlled by a computer program, which takes a "high-level" description of the page in terms of text, fonts, and formatting commands, and digests all of that into "low-level" commands for the printer. TEX is such a program, created by Donald E. Knuth, a computer scientist at Stanford University.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 1995
First published:	1991
Translators:	Silvio Levy
Foreword by:	D. Foata
Authors:	Raymond Seroul • Silvio Levy
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	284
Edition:	1st ed. 1991. Corr. 3rd printing 1995
ISBN-13:	978-0-387-97562-7
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Industrial / commercial art & design > Typography Books > Computing & IT > General theory of computing > General Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > General
LSN:	0-387-97562-4
Barcode:	9780387975627

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