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Digressions on typography and formatting: * How did Shannon get nice looking math before LaTeX? John Nash's thesis in 1950 (only 32 pages long!) had handwritte
by bravura 3y ago
Digressions on typography and formatting:
* How did Shannon get nice looking math before LaTeX? John Nash's thesis in 1950 (only 32 pages long!) had handwritten math: https://library.princeton.edu/special-collections/sites/default/files/Non-Cooperative_Games_Nash.pdf https://library.princeton.edu/special-collections/sites/defa...
* Strange to see see citations as footnotes, not a references section. (Nash's thesis was kind enough to include two cites in its references.) Was this typical?
- lelag 3y agoThere was no computer involved when publishing at the time. It certainly just took time and money for a professional typesetter to painstakingly set symbol after symbol on his manual typesetting machine.
- throwuwu 3y agoOr type it into a Linotype.
- pjdesno 3y agoIt's called professional typesetting. The manuscript sent to BSTJ would have been typed, probably double-spaced, and I assume with hand-drawn equations. Once editing was finished, it would go to the typesetter. Answers on this Stackexchange thread go into some detail: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/244082/typesetting-before-tex-and-computers https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/244082/typesetting-b... On page 290 of a linked source you can see an example of typed/handwritten copy that the typesetter (a person) would have been working from: https://gwern.net/doc/design/typography/2003-matrix-typeandtypography.pdf https://gwern.net/doc/design/typography/2003-matrix-typeandt...