…"leave that to the printer" (hope they can get good bids without the pre press estimate), so the variety of pre press tools widens to include just LaTex and a impostor for separations/plates. Knuth's Digital Typography, is a excellent read, and a chapter in that, showing by how much, and how easily, major press titles can be made more readable, save space, and more, became a brilliant sales tool for my consulting. If…
I would also highly recommend "Digital Typography" by Knuth. It contains a more detailed description of the algorithm as well as many interesting historical and technical chapters on TeX, MetaFont and computer typesetting in general.
…“设计”。”很多人非常在乎排版的细节。如果你真想看看什么是“伪装成设计的自嗨打飞机”，不妨去看看 Donald Knuth 这个疯子写的一本书：Donald E. Knuth 著《Digital Typography》（斯坦福，加利福尼亚：语言与信息研究中心，1999 年）。“或者他把二进制文件和 swap 文件一并 commit 进 git 仓库的时候。”往仓库里 commit 二进制文件实在太…
…"designing"." A lot of people care about the finer points of typography. If you really want to see some "circle jerking disguised as designing" take a look at a book by this nutjob named Donald Knuth: Digital Typography by Donald E. Knuth (Stanford, California: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1999) "Or when he commits binary and swapfiles into his git repository." Committing binary files is such an…
I have a printed copy of Knuth's "Digital Typography" on my desk (hardcover from 1999). The table of contents does not look too great, but the rest of the book is a piece of art in itself.
…“把那丢给印刷厂去搞”（天知道他们没有印前报价能不能拿到合理竞标），所以印前工具的选择面变宽了，变得只剩 LaTeX 和一个搞分色/印版的冒牌玩意儿。Knuth 的《Digital Typography》是本极好的书，里面有一章展示了主流出版社的图书能如何轻而易举地变得可读性更高、更省版面等等，这成了我做咨询时的绝杀销售利器。如果…
…"leave that to the printer" (hope they can get good bids without the pre press estimate), so the variety of pre press tools widens to include just LaTex and a impostor for separations/plates. Knuth's Digital Typography, is a excellent read, and a chapter in that, showing by how much, and how easily, major press titles can be made more readable, save space, and more, became a brilliant sales tool for my consulting. If…
Donald Knuth 在《Digital Typography》里也有两章写得很不错。
Donald Knuth also has two nice chapters in "Digital Typography".
我也强烈推荐 Knuth 的《Digital Typography》。里面不仅对该算法进行了更详细的描述，还收录了许多关于 TeX、MetaFont 以及广义计算机排版技术的有趣历史与技术章节。
I would also highly recommend "Digital Typography" by Knuth. It contains a more detailed description of the algorithm as well as many interesting historical and technical chapters on TeX, MetaFont and computer typesetting in general.
…“设计”。”很多人非常在乎排版的细节。如果你真想看看什么是“伪装成设计的自嗨打飞机”，不妨去看看 Donald Knuth 这个疯子写的一本书：Donald E. Knuth 著《Digital Typography》（斯坦福，加利福尼亚：语言与信息研究中心，1999 年）。“或者他把二进制文件和 swap 文件一并 commit 进 git 仓库的时候。”往仓库里 commit 二进制文件实在太…
…"designing"." A lot of people care about the finer points of typography. If you really want to see some "circle jerking disguised as designing" take a look at a book by this nutjob named Donald Knuth: Digital Typography by Donald E. Knuth (Stanford, California: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1999) "Or when he commits binary and swapfiles into his git repository." Committing binary files is such an…
我桌上有一本 Knuth《Digital Typography》的实体书（1999 年精装版）。目录乍看可能普普通通，但全书其余部分本身就是一件艺术品。
I have a printed copy of Knuth's "Digital Typography" on my desk (hardcover from 1999). The table of contents does not look too great, but the rest of the book is a piece of art in itself.
12：Knuth - 《Digital Typography》。
12: Knuth - Digital Typography.