Metafont The Program

This volume contains the fully documented program listing for METAFONT, Donald E. Knuth's revolutionary typeface design language. Readers interested in software development and in Knuth's programming style will find this a fascinating and instructive case study. Never before has a computer program with this much size and variety been spelled out so clearly and completely. Knuth presents all the algorithms and explains every detail of the METAFONT program, utilizing the WEB system of structured documentation that he developed as part of his TEX research project. METAFONT's new algorithms for computer graphics make this program especially interesting; traditional algorithms of parsing and marcro expansion are present too, often with new twists. This book is an excellent lesson by example on how to put programming theory into practice.