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In this second collection in the series, Knuth explores the relationship between computers and typography.
List of contents
1. Digital typography; 2. Mathematical typography; 3. Breaking paragraphs into lines; 4. Mixing right-to-left texts with left-to-right texts; 5. Recipes and fractions; 6. The TeX logo in various fonts; 7. Printing out selected pages; 8. Macros for Jill; 9. Problem for a Saturday morning; 10. Exercises for TeX: the program; 11. Mini-indexes for literate programs; 12. Virtual fonts: more fun for Grand Wizards; 13. The letter S; 14. My first experience with Indian scripts; 15. The concept of a meta-font; 16. Lessons learned from MetaFont; 17. AMS Euler - a new typeface for mathematics; 18. Typesetting concrete mathematics; 19. A course on MetaFont programming; 20. A punk meta-font; 21. Fonts for digital halftones; 22. Digital halftones by Dot diffusion; 23. A note on digital angles; 24. TEXDR.AFT; 25. TEX.ONE; 26. TeX Incunabula; 27. Icons for TeX and MetaFont; 28. Computers and typesetting; 29. The new versions of TeX and MetaFont; 30. The future of TeX and MetaFont; 31. Questions and answers, I; 32. Questions and answers, II; 33. Questions and answers, III; Index.
