Overview
Administrative Information
Biographical Note
Scope and Contents note
Access Terms
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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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.