WEB is a software system that facilitates the creation of readable programs. It was originally developed by Donald E. Knuth as he programmed the TEX typesetting system. Users of WEB are able to write programs of superior quality; produce state-of-the-art documentation; greatly reduce debugging time and maintain programs easily as conditions change. CWEB is a version of WEB for documenting C and C++ programs. WEB was adapted to C by Silvio Levy in 1987, and since then both Knuth and Levy have revised and enhanced the system in many ways, notably to support C++ and ANSI C. Thus CWEB combines TEX with two of today's most widely used professional programming languages. This book is the definitive user's guide and reference manual for the CWEB system. The CWEB software itself is freely available via anonymous ftp from labrea.stanford.edu on the Internet.

The CWEB System of Structured Documentation, Version 3.0

Computers & Technology

Knuth, Donald E.

Levy, Silvio

Graphics & Design

Addison-Wesley Professional

The last two decades have witnessed a revolution in the realm of typography, with the virtual disappearance of hot-lead typesetting in favor of the so-called digital typesetting. The principle behind the new technology is simple: imagine a very fine mesh superimposed on a sheet of paper. Digital typesetting consists in darkening the appropriate pixels (tiny squares) of this mesh, in patterns corresponding to each character and symbol of the text being set. The actual darkening is done by some printing device, say a laser printer or phototypesetter, which must be told exactly where the ink should go. Since the mesh is very fine-the dashes surrounding this sentence are some six pixels thick, and more than 200 pixels long-the printer can only be controlled by a computer program, which takes a "high-level" description of the page in terms of text, fonts, and formatting commands, and digests all of that into "low-level" commands for the printer. TEX is such a program, created by Donald E. Knuth, a computer scientist at Stanford University.

A Beginner’s Book of TEX

Science & Math

Springer

Outside In: Video and Supplement (NTSC version)

This award-winning video visualizes the discovery that a sphere can be turned inside out by means of smooth motion if self-intersection of the material is allowed. Stunning computer animation combined with thorough explanations in the spoken text and the accompanying four-color booklet, Making Waves, classify this film as "educational entertainment." "The technical work could hardly be improved upon." -- James M. Kister, Mathematical Reviews

Mathematics

A.K. Peters

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