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Out of curiosity, how did they typeset those mathematical formulae? Still by carefully tiling little metal blocks or with something more advanced.
by yvdriess 15y ago
Out of curiosity, how did they typeset those mathematical formulae? Still by carefully tiling little metal blocks or with something more advanced.
- pak 15y agoI was wondering this myself. I think that they were still tiling little metal blocks, according to this picture: http://www.datadeluge.com/2010/09/how-maths-was-typeset-before-latex.html http://www.datadeluge.com/2010/09/how-maths-was-typeset-befo... Which makes it all the more impressive--each page took considerable craft and attention to detail. For more information on this, you'd have to get a book like this one--I can't find anything more online: http://www.worldcat.org/title/printing-of-mathematics-aids-for-authors-and-editors-and-rules-for-compositors-and-readers-at-the-university-press-oxford/oclc/220341904 http://www.worldcat.org/title/printing-of-mathematics-aids-f...