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9780201134384

Computers & Typesetting, Volume D Metafont: The Program

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  • ISBN13:

    9780201134384

  • ISBN10:

    0201134381

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1986-01-01
  • Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
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Summary

The is the fourth volume in a five-volume series on Computers and Typesetting, all authored by Donald E. Knuth.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1(16)
The character set
17(7)
Input and output
24(13)
String handling
37(17)
On-line and off-line printing
54(13)
Reporting errors
67(28)
Arithmetic with scaled numbers
95(25)
Algebraic and transcendental functions
120(33)
Packed data
153(5)
Dynamic memory allocation
158(17)
Memory layout
175(11)
The command codes
186(14)
The hash table
200(14)
Token lists
214(14)
Data structures for variables
228(22)
Saving and restoring equivalents
250(5)
Data structures for paths
255(14)
Choosing control points
269(34)
Generating discrete moves
303(20)
Edge structures
323(63)
Subdivision into octants
386(74)
Filling a contour
460(9)
Polygonal pens
469(21)
Filling an envelope
490(34)
Elliptical pens
524(14)
Direction and intersection times
538(26)
Online graphic output
564(21)
Dynamic linear equations
585(33)
Dynamic nonlinear equations
618(6)
Introduction to the syntactic routines
624(3)
Input stacks and states
627(20)
Maintaining the input stacks
647(11)
Getting the next token
658(25)
Scanning macro definitions
683(23)
Expanding the next token
706(32)
Conditional processing
738(14)
Iterations
752(14)
File names
766(30)
Introduction to the parsing routines
796(27)
Parsing primary expressions
823(39)
Parsing secondary and higher expressions
862(31)
Doing the operations
893(96)
Statements and commands
989(31)
Commands
1020(67)
Font metric data
1087(55)
Generic font file format
1142(7)
Shipping characters out
1149(34)
Dumping and undumping the tables
1183(19)
The main program
1202(10)
Debugging
1212(2)
System-dependent changes
1214(1)
Index
1215

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