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diff --git a/tex/context/sample/common/douglas.tex b/tex/context/sample/common/douglas.tex new file mode 100644 index 000000000..838c6d24d --- /dev/null +++ b/tex/context/sample/common/douglas.tex @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +Donald Knuth has spent the past several years working on a +system allowing him to control many aspects of the design +of his forthcoming books|=|from the typesetting and layout +down to the very shapes of the letters! Seldom has an +author had anything remotely like this power to control the +final appearance of his or her work. Knuth's \TEX\ +typesetting system has become well|-|known and as available in +many countries around the world. By contrast, his +\METAFONT\ system for designing families of typefaces has +not become as well known or as available. + +In his article \quotation {The Concept of a Meta|-|Font}, +Knuth sets forth for the first time the underlying +philosophy of \METAFONT, as well as some of its products. +Not only is the concept exciting and clearly well executed, +but in my opinion the article is charmingly written as well. +However, despite my overall enthusiasm for Knuth's idea and +article, there are some points in it that I feel might be +taken wrongly by many readers, and since they are points +that touch close to my deepest interests in artificial +intelligence and esthetic theory, I felt compelled to make +some comments to clarify certain important issues raised by +\quotation {The Concept of a Meta|-|Font}. |