The word “typesetting” does not refer to all aspects of visual appearance, but merely to the crucial decision of where each character goes: what glyph (from the

The word “typesetting” does not refer to all aspects of visual appearance, but merely to the crucial decision of where each character goes: what glyph (from the fonts available) is placed at what position on the page. This paper was first published in the ACM Computing Surveys journal, and the typesetting is fine (as you'll find if you pick up a physical copy of the journal) — I think what you're complaining about is that all PDF versions that have been put up online so far (including the official one available via https://doi.org/10.1145/356635.356640 https://doi.org/10.1145/356635.356640) are from the same poor scan of the journal: it's not the typesetting that is atrocious, but the scanning quality (converting the printed page into digital images). You may also want to look at the version published in Knuth's collection called Literate Programming (with corresponding errata: https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/lp.html#:~:text=Errata,corrections%20to%20errors https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/lp.html#:~:text=Errata,correc... ), and I've just uploaded a scan here: https://shreevatsa.net/tmp/2025-06/DEK-P67-Structured.programming.with.go.to.statements-LP.pdf https://shreevatsa.net/tmp/2025-06/DEK-P67-Structured.progra...