About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 67. Chapters: TeX, Typeface, Desktop publishing, TrueType, Monospaced font, OpenType, List of typefaces designed by Frederic Goudy, Capitalization, Hot metal typesetting, All caps, Morris Fuller Benton, Phototypesetting, Small caps, List of typographic features, TeX font metric, Web Open Font Format, Comicraft, Ludlow Typograph, Font family, Complex text layout, Atex, TJ-2, Compugraphic, Printer's key, Punchcutting, Desktop Publishing Magazine, New Typesetting System, Characters per line, Intertype Corporation, Graphite, -30-, Composing stick, Agate, TrueDoc, Berthold typesetting systems, Sort, Auriol, UltraXML, Slug, Line length, The PracTeX Journal, F3, Paige Compositor, Intellifont, Bitstream Speedo Fonts, Hellbox, TUGboat, Lanston Monotype Company, Reglet, Strut, Furniture, CAT. Excerpt: TeX ( as in Greek, but often pronounced in English) is a typesetting system designed and mostly written by Donald Knuth. Within the typesetting system, its name is formatted as X. Together with the METAFONT language for font description and the Computer Modern family of typefaces, TeX was designed with two main goals in mind: to allow anybody to produce high-quality books using a reasonable amount of effort, and to provide a system that would give exactly the same results on all computers, now and in the future. TeX is one popular means by which to typeset complex mathematical formulae; it has been noted as one of the most sophisticated digital typographical systems in the world. TeX is popular in academia, especially in mathematics, computer science, economics, engineering, physics, statistics, and quantitative psychology. It has largely displaced Unix troff, the other favored formatter, in many Unix installations, which use both for different purposes. It is now also being used for many other typesetting tasks, especially in the form of LaT...
