Metafont, Metamathematics, and Metaphysics
Subtitle: Comments on Donald Knuth's Article "The Concept of a Meta-Font"
Edition: Volume 16, number 1
Series: Visible Language
Publisher: College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, University of Cincinnati; University of Cincinnati
Published: Fall 1982
Place of publication: Cleveland, Oh, USA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Number of pages: 30
Copyright date: 1982
Subjects: Knuth, Donald E. -- 1938-
First sentence: Donald Knuth has spent the past several years working on a system allowing him to control many aspects of the design of his forthcoming books—from the typesetting and layout down to the very shapes of the letters!
Notes: Pages 309–338
Table of contents: title: The "Mathematization of Categories" and Metamathematics
pagenum: 309; title: An Intuitive Picture of Gödel's Theorem
pagenum: 311; title: A Misleading Claim for Metafont
pagenum: 316; title: Joint Parametrization of Two Typefaces: A Far Cry from Parametrizing One Typeface
pagenum: 318; title: Interpolating between an Arbitrary Pair of Typefaces
pagenum: 320; title: "A Posteriori" Knobs and the Frame Problem of AI
pagenum: 322; title: A Total Unification of All Typefaces?
pagenum: 324; title: The Essence of "A"-ness is Not Geometrical
pagenum: 326; title: Chauvinism versus Open-Mindedness: Fixed Questionnaires versus Fluid Roles
pagenum: 326; title: The "A" Spirit
pagenum: 329; title: Happy Roles, Unhappy Roles, and Quirk-Notes
pagenum: 329; title: Modularity of Roles
pagenum: 330; title: Typographical Niches and Rival Categories
pagenum: 331; title: The Intermingling of Platonic Essences
pagenum: 331; title: Letter and Spirit
pagenum: 335; title: References
pagenum: 337