Computers and Typesetting
ISBN 978-0201734164 | | |
Computers and Typesetting is a 5-volume set of books by
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
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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."
Volumes
The five volumes are published by Addison-Wesley.
- Volume A: The TeXbook. Describes the TeX typesetting language. It is by far the most common and available of the set, as the TeX interpreter is widely used for typesetting. It is available in softcover ISBN 0-201-13447-0
- Volume B: TeX: The program. A documented listing of the source code of the TeX interpreter The 1986 edition in hardcover is ISBN 0-201-13437-3
- Volume C: The METAFONTbook. Describes the ISBN 0-201-13444-6.
- Volume D: Metafont: The program. A documented listing of the source code of the ISBN 0-201-60658-5
- Volume E: Computer Modern Typefaces. A character-by-character listing (in the ISBN 0-201-60660-7
The set is also available as a hardcover boxed set with the latest editions as of the year 2000.
ISBN 0-201-73416-8
A jubilee edition of the Volumes A to D was published by Addison-Wesley in February 2021 incorporating all the changes made during the TeX tune-up of 2021. (Volume E remained unchanged from the 2017 edition.)[1]
References
- ISSN 0896-3207.