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OpenType Superiors Feature: Why do letters and numbers have different baselines?

... designed and donated by the indomitable Hermann Zapf. Donald Knuth writes about working with Zapf on this project in his book Digital ...

Forum topic - dan_reynolds - 19 Dec 2005 - 1:52am - 60 comments - 0 attachments

Critiques of the OpenType format?

... Happy Holidays Idris *** I have noticed that Donald Knuth is rarely given the credit deserved for the h&j algorithm. Even ...

Forum topic - ishamid - 16 Jan 2006 - 11:29am - 111 comments - 0 attachments

Metafont

... technologies. The first version was developed by Donald Knuth in 1977, and it continued to be refined for many years, with a ...

Wiki - raph - 4 Dec 2009 - 12:45am - 0 comments

TeX

... as TeX in plain text, is a typesetting system created by Donald Knuth . It is popular in academia, especially in the mathematics, physics and ...

Wiki - ishamid - 2 Aug 2008 - 5:46am - 0 comments

Typophile Books: Typography

... Digital Typography by Donald E. Knuth Publisher: C S L I Publications; Reissue edition Hardcover: 685 pages ...

Page - Jared Benson - 28 Jul 2007 - 8:09pm - 0 comments

origins of InDesign's new paragraph layout engine?

... way. Dr Karow did not mention TeX in his talk [Professor Knuth copped one mention re: METAFONT, but oddly, Dr Karow mentioned that ... HZ connection, a lot of ideas flowing between Peter and Donald so maybe there's an element of each camp's supporters taking credit. ...

Forum topic - qu1j0t3 - 20 Jun 2007 - 2:09pm - 14 comments - 0 attachments

Hermann Zapf

... of digital typography. From his groundbreaking work with Donald Knuth on TeX to his collaboration with John Hudson , Akira Kobayashi ...

Wiki - timd - 12 Mar 2007 - 4:14am - 0 comments

The hand in motion and type design, one more once

... by Richard Southall discusses the ' Metafonts ' of Donald Knuth . If I understand the account of the Metafonts correctly, a spine of the ...

Forum topic - William Berkson - 10 Sep 2006 - 10:14am - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Charles Bigelow to be next Cary Professor at RIT

... program in digital typography at Stanford along with Donald Knuth in 1982 and has taught, lectured and written extensively. His students ...

News - Jill Bell - 15 Aug 2006 - 8:01am - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Readability and verticality

... formatted for small journal presses and the like. And Knuth certainly is a major genius. But it renders the whole art of typography ... or intuitive VERSUS quantifiable. The wisdom of what Donald Schon calls the "reflective practitioner" actually MUST be build on ...

Forum topic - jlg4104 - 21 Mar 2006 - 4:56am - 114 comments - 0 attachments