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METAFONT : the program / Donald E. Knuth..

By: Knuth, Donald Ervin, 1938-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Knuth, Donald Ervin',1938- Computers & typesetting: D.Publisher: Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co, c1986Description: xv, 560 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0201134381 .Subject(s): METAFONT | TeX (Computer file) | Font editors | TypesettingDDC classification: 686.22544
Contents:
The character set -- Input and output -- String handling -- On-line and off-line printing -- Reporting errors -- Arithmetic with scaled numbers -- Algebraic and transcendental functions -- Packed data -- Dynamic memory allocation -- Memory layout -- The command codes -- The hash table -- Token lists -- Data structures for variables -- Saving and restoring equivalents -- Data structures for paths -- Choosing control points -- Generating discrete moves -- Edge structures -- Subdivision into octants -- Filling a contour -- Polygonal pens -- Filling an envelope -- Elliptical pens -- Direction and intersection times -- Online graphic output -- Dynamic linear equations -- Dynamic nonlinear equations -- Introduction to the syntactic routines -- Input stacks and states -- Maintaining the input stacks -- Getting the next token -- Scanning macro definitions -- Expanding the next token -- Conditional processing -- Iterations -- File names -- Introduction to the parsing routines -- Parsing primary expressions -- Parsing secondary and higher expressions -- Doing the operations -- Statements and commands -- Commands -- Font metric data -- Generic font file format -- Shipping characters out -- Dumping and undumping the tables -- The main program -- Debugging -- System-dependent changes.
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General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 686.22544 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00022888
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The Complete Source Code and Program Listing for METAFONT

Now, 35 years after the first edition, the leading worldwide experts on these systems have spent several months inspecting every page thoroughly. We now believe that every "i" has been properly dotted, every "t" has been properly crossed, and every bug has been properly exterminated.

This volume contains the fully documented program listing for METAFONT, Donald E. Knuth's revolutionary typeface design language.

Readers interested in software development and in Knuth's programming style will find this a fascinating and instructive case study. Never before has a computer program with this much size and variety been spelled out so clearly and completely. Knuth presents all the algorithms and explains every detail of the METAFONT program, utilizing the WEB system of structured documentation that he developed as part of his TeX research project. METFONT's new algorithms for computer graphics make this program especially interesting; traditional algorithms of parsing and macro expansion are present too, often with new twists. This book is an excellent lesson by example on how to put programming theory into practice.

METAFONT: The Program is the fourth in a five-volume series on Computers and Typesetting , all authored by Knuth. This series presents the results of nearly a decade of innovative research on the problems of preparing publications of high typographic quality.

Includes index.

The character set -- Input and output -- String handling -- On-line and off-line printing -- Reporting errors -- Arithmetic with scaled numbers -- Algebraic and transcendental functions -- Packed data -- Dynamic memory allocation -- Memory layout -- The command codes -- The hash table -- Token lists -- Data structures for variables -- Saving and restoring equivalents -- Data structures for paths -- Choosing control points -- Generating discrete moves -- Edge structures -- Subdivision into octants -- Filling a contour -- Polygonal pens -- Filling an envelope -- Elliptical pens -- Direction and intersection times -- Online graphic output -- Dynamic linear equations -- Dynamic nonlinear equations -- Introduction to the syntactic routines -- Input stacks and states -- Maintaining the input stacks -- Getting the next token -- Scanning macro definitions -- Expanding the next token -- Conditional processing -- Iterations -- File names -- Introduction to the parsing routines -- Parsing primary expressions -- Parsing secondary and higher expressions -- Doing the operations -- Statements and commands -- Commands -- Font metric data -- Generic font file format -- Shipping characters out -- Dumping and undumping the tables -- The main program -- Debugging -- System-dependent changes.

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