How do we decide where to put ink on a page to draw letters and pictures? How can computers represent all the world’s languages and writing systems? What exactly is a computer program, what and how does it calculate, and how can we build one? Can we compress information to make it easier to store and quicker to transmit? How do newspapers print photographs with grey tones using just black ink and white paper? How are paragraphs laid out automatically on a page and split across multiple pages? In A Machine Made this Book, using examples from the publishing industry, John Whitington introduces the fascinating discipline of Computer Science to the uninitiated.
Author(s): John Whitington
Publisher: Coherent Press
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 199
Tags: Book Publishing, Typography
Preface......Page 4
Putting Marks on Paper......Page 14
Letter Forms......Page 28
Storing Words......Page 40
Looking and Finding......Page 54
Typing it In......Page 66
Saving Space......Page 78
Doing Sums......Page 94
Grey Areas......Page 110
Our Typeface......Page 136
Words to Paragraphs......Page 148
Solutions......Page 160
Further Reading......Page 182
Colophon......Page 186
Index......Page 194
