Introduction: From WEB to C, a bit of history/background For some time I’d wanted to build TeX (the original Knuth version) from the WEB source code, but the relatively complex process to generate C from WEB meant it was…
TeX uses the concept of “badness” as a measure of how much the glue in a box has to stretch or shrink. In the following C function, t is the difference between the total of the natural sizes (N) of…
Just a brief post, partly to record this for my own use. If you read the source code of TeX you will see references to a data structure called a memoryword. It is very carefully defined in the source file…
Summary This is a lengthy post which covers numerous topics on using fonts with TeX and DVIPS. It was fun to write and program but it certainly absorbed many hours of my evenings and weekends. In some areas I’ve had…
The C source code of the once commercial Y&Y TeX distribution (for Windows) was donated to the TeX User Group after Y&Y TeX Inc ceased trading. I bought a copy the Y&Y TeX system in the late 1990s and certainly…
Just a brief post to share a list of papers which describe many interesting and low-level details of math typesetting, including TeX’s algorithms and math fonts. Appendix G Illuminated, by Bogusław Jackowski. Understanding the aesthetics of math typesetting, by Ulrik…