Mathematical typography

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• soamv · Apr 15, 2011 · Recommends

  Knuth's Mathematical Typography is interesting too: http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS?service=UI&version=1.0&#3...

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• zzless · Nov 14, 2020 · Recommends

  I would like to second this great advice. A somewhat shorter piece of reading is 'Mathematical typography' by Knuth (published in the Bulletin of the AMS but I believe is freely available online). This article outlines the (enormous) scope of the problem (even before multilanguage typography is considered,…

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• bluenose69 · Jul 22, 2021 · Recommends

  …the early setup of tex might enjoy reading the following Knuth (1979). It's a very engaging read, for something that's technical. (Generally, Knuth is a great writer.) References Knuth, Donald E. “Mathematical Typography.” Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 1, no. 2 (March 1979): 337–72.

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• bluenose69 · Apr 10, 2021 · Mentions

  …always get a report about how intriguing it is. Beyond the material, I think a big factor is that it's simply intriguing to hear what a clear thinker spends time thinking about. 1. Knuth, Donald E. “Mathematical Typography.” Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 1, no. 2 (March 1979): 337–72 https://projecteuclid.org:443/euclid.bams/1183544082

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• Jasper_ · Dec 22, 2018 · Mentions

  This looks really awesome. I'm curious, because I haven't seen much work built on top of Knuth and Hobby's "Most Pleasing Curve" as defined by Mathematical Typography [0] and Hobby's follow-up papers [1] [2] [3]. Has anybody investigated these? As far as I know they're just not very convenient to rasterize. [0] http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~millerpd/docs/501_Winter13/Kn... [1]…

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• bluenose69 · Dec 13, 2024 · Mentions

  …Then I started to see differences. And then some looked ugly. That one in the middle, though, looked better and better, the more I studied the figure. Pretty soon, I was hooked. 1. Knuth, Donald E. “Mathematical Typography.” Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 1, no. 2 (March 1979): 337–72.

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• svat · May 21, 2026 · Mentions

  …understanding[^1]. When the rest of the industry was perfectly content with the deterioration of typesetting, Knuth set out to capture the aesthetics of the best journals of the past. A quote from the Mathematical Typography paper I linked above (https://websites.umich.edu/~millerpd//docs/501_Winter13/Knut...): > At this point I regretfully stopped submitting papers to the American Mathematical Society, since the finished…

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• svat · Jan 6, 2020 · Mentions

  …phototypesetting, is dissatisfied with typography and excited by the possibility of getting it right with digital typesetting). Plans to have galleys ready in the summer :-) 1978 January: Gives Gibbs lecture (“Mathematical Typography”) on his ongoing research, unexpectedly many people are excited and want to use TeX. 1978: Finishes first version of TeX (aka TeX78, in SAIL) 1980: Starts work on rewrite of TeX (so that it can be used…

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• svat · Jan 23, 2023 · Mentions

  …and all the debates on Debian/FSF mailing lists etc if you're morbidly interested[6]; the discussion usually proceeds on similar lines and I hope it doesn't get repeated here. :-) [1]: Gibbs lecture, “Mathematical Typography”: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1979-14598-1 [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_Typesetting_S... [3]: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/385645/is-nts-new-ty... [4]: http://mirrors.ctan.org/info/knuth-pdf/tex/tripman.pdf…

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