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Re:Metafont (1984) by enriquto on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @06:03AM (#23465237)
One of my favorite reads! Somehow, it turns out to be much funnier than the TeXBook, which is a bit arid. I love when he explains that drawing a beautiful S is wickedly difficult. And the metafont language is quite slick.
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Re:Metafont (1984) by Tomte on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @06:07AM (#23465257)
The character S also has its own chapter in Knuth's "Digital Typography": https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/dt.html

The half-tone chapter is also quite cool.

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Re:Metafont (1984) by dhosek on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @10:17AM (#23466854)
I remember when the half-tone article was first published in TUGboat. In those days when scanners were exotic equipment not easily accessible, the illustrations were amazing to see (and to recreate).
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Re:Metafont (1984) by guylepage3 on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @10:24AM (#23466914)
This is very cool. Thanks for sharing.
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