Auxiliary materials for "TeX: A branch of desktop publishing
evolution, Parts 1 and 2"
by Barbara Beeton, Karl Berry, and David Walden.
Published in the special issues on desktop publishing of the IEEE
Annals of the History of Computing, 2018 and 2019.
Part 1: vol.40, no.3, pp.78–93, July-September 2018.
- Preprints of
the two parts of the paper
- Notes and additional references (Part 1 & Part 2)
not included with the paper because of the Annals limitation to
20 references in a paper.
[Currently the page numbers for the second part back reference the
unnumbered pages in the version that was submitted for
publication; when the second part is published, the page numbers will be
changed to match the printed pages, as has been done for the first part.]
- How TeX is Extended — appendix
to Part 2; reference 7, 8, and 9 in the text are:
- Donald Knuth, The TeXbook, Addison-Wesley, 1986, particularly chapter 20.
- Victor Eijkhout, TeX by Topic, Addison-Wesley, 1991, particularly
chapters 11–14, ctan.org/pkg/texbytopic.
- David Salomon, The Advanced TeXbook, Springer-Verlag, 1995.
- Summary of the Euler typeface
development project.
- Typical outline and midterm exam for Charle
Bigelow's "Concepts of Text" course in the Stanford program in digital
typography.
If questions or comments, feel free to email the authors: publishing
(at) tug (dot) org.