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From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.context-users@rawuncut.elitemail.org>
Subject: Recommended Books on Typesetting
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 20:24:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041128192418.GA30208@puritan.pcp.ath.cx> (raw)

Hi!

I was wondering if anyone has any books to recommend, mainly in the area
of typesetting, i.e., on TeX, typography, and so on.

Personally, I can recommend Donald E. Knuth's "The TeXbook" and also his
book on MetaFont.

I am thinking of getting "The Complete Manual of Typography" by James
Felici, which seems to be a very good book on the subject.

I have also been looking for books by Hermann Zapf, but most seem to be
out of print and very, very expensive where available; anyone know if
they are worth their steep prices?  nikolai

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             reply	other threads:[~2004-11-28 19:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-28 19:24 Nikolai Weibull [this message]
2004-11-28 19:51 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2004-11-28 21:06   ` h h extern
2004-11-28 19:54 ` Adam Lindsay
2004-11-28 21:12 ` h h extern
2004-11-28 22:22   ` Nikolai Weibull
2004-11-28 21:15 ` h h extern
2004-11-29 16:40   ` Willi Egger
2004-11-28 19:55 ishamid

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