Typesetting With Brian Kernighan

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A concise tour showing that Brian Kernighan not only authors but typesets 12–15 books, moving from PDP phototypesetters to commodity laptops; he and collaborators reverse-engineer a proprietary font format to print chess diagrams, build a troff/tbl/eqn pipeline for camera-ready copy, and later adopt groff and gscript. The arc includes Software Tools in Pascal, The C Programming Language, and a 2020 refresh, plus an Orc second edition adding full Unicode to a 1977 language.

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