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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 (volumes A and C), he also describes and documents the source code (in the WEB programming language) of the TeX and Metafont interpreters (volumes B and D), and the source code for the Computer Modern fonts used by TeX (volume E). Th
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| dbo:abstract | 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 (volumes A and C), he also describes and documents the source code (in the WEB programming language) of the TeX and Metafont interpreters (volumes B and D), and the source code for the Computer Modern fonts used by TeX (volume E). The book set stands as a tour de force demonstration of literate programming. The books themselves were typeset in the Computer Modern Roman typeface using TeX; thus, in Knuth's words, they "belong to the class of sets of books that describe precisely their own appearance." (en) Computers and Typesetting est une série de livres de 5 volumes, écrits par Donald Knuth, et publiés en 1986. Ces livres décrivent les logiciels de composition TeX et Metafont. Le projet «computers and typesetting» de Knuth est le résultat de sa frustration devant le manque de logiciels de qualité pour la mise en page de documents mathématiques, et de documents techniques. Ce projet a abouti à la création de TeX pour la mise en page, de Metafont pour la création de polices, et de la famille de polices Computer Modern, utilisées par défaut par TeX. Dans cette série de 5 livres, Knuth ne se contente pas de décrire leslangages TeX et Metafont (volumes A and C), mais il décrit etdocumente aussi le code source (écrit en langage WEB) desinterpréteurs TeX et Metafont (volumes B and D), et enfin le codesource des polices Computer Modern fonts utilisées par TeX (volumeE). Cet ensemble de livres constitue un tour de force en matière deprogrammation lettrée. Les livres sont adorés par les mathématiciens et les utilisateurs deTeX. Ils sont sans doute moins connus des informaticiens et desprogrammeurs, le projet TeX n'ayant été qu'une diversion de 8 ans à l'écriture des volumes de The Art of Computer Programming. Les livres eux-mêmes furent mis en page avec les polices ComputerModern Roman en utilisant TeX; ainsi, comme le dit Knuth, ils« appartiennent à la catégorie des livres en plusieurs volumes quidécrivent avec précision leur propre apparence ». (fr) |
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| rdfs:comment | 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 (volumes A and C), he also describes and documents the source code (in the WEB programming language) of the TeX and Metafont interpreters (volumes B and D), and the source code for the Computer Modern fonts used by TeX (volume E). Th (en) Computers and Typesetting est une série de livres de 5 volumes, écrits par Donald Knuth, et publiés en 1986. Ces livres décrivent les logiciels de composition TeX et Metafont. Le projet «computers and typesetting» de Knuth est le résultat de sa frustration devant le manque de logiciels de qualité pour la mise en page de documents mathématiques, et de documents techniques. Ce projet a abouti à la création de TeX pour la mise en page, de Metafont pour la création de polices, et de la famille de polices Computer Modern, utilisées par défaut par TeX. (fr) |
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