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