Guide to the Richard Southall Papers
Daniel Hartwig
Stanford University. Libraries.
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
November 2010
Copyright © 2015 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
Overview
Call Number: SC1002
Creator:
Southall, Richard
Title: Richard Southall papers
Dates: 1981-1986
Physical Description:
1.5 Linear feet
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Administrative Information
Provenance
Materials were the gift of Richard Southall, 2010.
Information about Access
Open for research. Audio-visual materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.
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is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
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Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
Cite As
[identification of item], Ricahrd Southall Papers (SC1002). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical Note
Richard Southall, lecturer in the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading, England,
worked with Donald Knuth at Stanford between 1983 and 1986 on the Metafont Project.
Scope and Contents note
These papers pertain to Southall’s work on METAFONT and fall into four broad categories. The first concerns 'the CMR project':
the revision undertaken by Southall and Stanford Prof D. E. Knuth in March and April 1982 of Knuth’s original design for the
bold sanserif variant of the Computer Modern family of typefaces. The second consists of notes, teaching material, and products
from the course in METAFONT programming (CS279) that was given at Stanford in the summer of 1984 to introduce the new version
of the METAFONT language. The third category of material consists of notes and correspondence relating to the work of the
digital typography group at Stanford from late 1983 until the beginning of the CS279 course in 1984. The fourth comprises
development material, program listings, and tests for the two versions (known as TKMF and NMT) of Southall’s own METAFONT
font typeface design. This was begun in late 1983, revised in 1984 with the appearance of the new METAFONT, continued at the
Université Louis-Pasteur in Strasbourg in the summer of 1985, and eventually abandoned owing to the necessity for Southall
to complete his report "Designing new typefaces with METAFONT" (STAN-CS-85-1074) before leaving his post at Stanford.
Access Terms
Knuth, Donald Ervin, 1938-
Computer fonts.
METAFONT (Computer system).
Type and type-founding--Data processing.
The CMR project files
1981-1982
Physical Description:
15 folder(s)
Language of Material:
English
Box 1, Folder 1
Correspondence between RS and M. Wrolstad, editor of "Visible language", concerning article by Knuth in that journal, and
between RS and Donald E. Knuth, concerning RS's visits to Stanford in 1981 and 1982
1981-1982
Box 1, Folder 2
Notes by RS made during his first visit to Stanford, March - April
1981-1982
Box 1, Folder 3
Printouts of Scott Kim's programs for his Euler characters
Box 1, Folder 4
Knuth’s articles and responses to (photocopies)
Box 1, Folder 5-6
Computer Modern and Monotype Modern Series 8A typefaces: originals, photographs, enlargements and paste-ups
Box 1, Folder 7
RS's redesign of Computer Modern Sanserif Bold: test xeroxes
Box 1, Folder 8
RS's redesign of Computer Modern Sanserif Bold: proofs, small letters
Box 1, Folder 9
RS's redesign of Computer Modern Sanserif Bold: canon tests
Box 1, Folder 10
RS's redesign of Computer Modern Sanserif Bold: drawings
Box 1, Folder 11
RS's redesign of Computer Modern Sanserif Bold: development series
Box 1, Folder 12
RS's redesign of Computer Modern Sanserif Bold: early work
Box 1, Folder 13
RS's redesign of Computer Modern Sanserif Bold: alphatype tests
Box 1, Folder 14
RS's redesign of Computer Modern Sanserif Bold: current proofs (caps)
Box 1, Folder 15
RS's redesign of Computer Modern Sanserif Bold: miscellaneous proofs
TK design files
1984 and undated
Physical Description:
6 folder(s)
Language of Material:
English
CS279 Metafont programming class files
1984
Physical Description:
3 folder(s)
Language of Material:
English
Box 2, Folder 7
Handouts and teaching materials
Box 2, Folder 8
Printout of original version of "font1" program
Box 2, Folder 9
Class picnic arrangements and proofs of ornaments produced by students
Digital Typography Group at Stanford
1983-1984
Physical Description:
2 folder(s)
Language of Material:
English
Box 2, Folder 10-11
RS’s teaching notes; notes and memoranda of the group; program listings for RS’s designs
Metafont Work by Richard Southall
1983-1986
Physical Description:
8 folder(s)
Box 2, Folder 12
"Making a typeface with new Metafont" talk given to the TeX User Group meeting
1985
Box 3, Folder 1
Illustrations for TUG [piece?]
1985
Box 3, Folder 2
TSA’s [Tamil?] – program list and examples
undated
Box 3, Folder 3
Drawings, proofs, and program listings of the 1983-84 version of the TKMF design
1985
Box 3, Folder 4
Drawings, proofs, and program listings of the 1983-84 version of the TKMF design
1986
Box 3, Folder 5
Printouts and drawings of RS’s NMT design
1984
Box 3, Folder 6
RS’s Metafont working notes at Stanford and Strasbourg
1985 April-1986 December
