稍微有点跑题，但我手头有一本 Knuth 的《Computer Modern Typefaces》（《Computers And Typesetting》系列的卷 E）。我觉得没多少人能看到这本书。你可以从中看出 Knuth 当年的一部分时间都花在哪儿了。前言里有这么一段话：“另一次机缘巧合……
Slightly off-topic, but I've got a copy of Knuth's Computer Modern Typefaces (Book E in the Computers And Typesetting series). I don't think many people get to see this book. You can see where some of Kunth's time went. Here's a quote from the preface: "Another piece of luck…
……像 Hermann Zapf、Matthew Carter、Richard Southall、Chuck Bigelow & Kris Holmes，还有 Neenie Billawala（斯坦福的学生之一）——这些人都在卷 E（《Computer Modern Typefaces》）的前言里被致谢了——但这并不意味着他是从零开始在自己已经搭好或正打算搭的系统里设计字体的。METAFONT 纯粹就是他为了这套……而倒腾出来的一堆 trick/代码集合。
…like Hermann Zapf and Matthew Carter and Richard Southall and Chuck Bigelow & Kris Holmes and Neenie Billawala (one of the Stanford students)—these are the people credited in the preface to Volume E (Computer Modern Typefaces)—but it's not as if he sat down to design a typeface ab initio in a system that he had already built or was planning to build. METAFONT is simply the collection of tricks/code he came up with for the…
稍微有点跑题，但我手头有一本 Knuth 的《Computer Modern Typefaces》（《Computers And Typesetting》系列的卷 E）。我觉得没多少人能看到这本书。你可以从中看出 Knuth 当年的一部分时间都花在哪儿了。前言里有这么一段话：“另一次机缘巧合……
Slightly off-topic, but I've got a copy of Knuth's Computer Modern Typefaces (Book E in the Computers And Typesetting series). I don't think many people get to see this book. You can see where some of Kunth's time went. Here's a quote from the preface: "Another piece of luck…
……像 Hermann Zapf、Matthew Carter、Richard Southall、Chuck Bigelow & Kris Holmes，还有 Neenie Billawala（斯坦福的学生之一）——这些人都在卷 E（《Computer Modern Typefaces》）的前言里被致谢了——但这并不意味着他是从零开始在自己已经搭好或正打算搭的系统里设计字体的。METAFONT 纯粹就是他为了这套……而倒腾出来的一堆 trick/代码集合。
…like Hermann Zapf and Matthew Carter and Richard Southall and Chuck Bigelow & Kris Holmes and Neenie Billawala (one of the Stanford students)—these are the people credited in the preface to Volume E (Computer Modern Typefaces)—but it's not as if he sat down to design a typeface ab initio in a system that he had already built or was planning to build. METAFONT is simply the collection of tricks/code he came up with for the…