Date   : Mon, 06 Feb 2006 22:17:40 GMT
From   : Pete Turnbull <pete@...>
Subject: Re: Grammar

On Feb 6 2006,  9:36, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
> In article <10602051822.ZM16738@...>, Pete
> Turnbull <pete@...> writes
>
> >Donald Alcock's well-known "Illustrating BASIC",
>
> I remember that book - wasn't it hand-written and hand-illustrated by
> the author, and printed and published in that form?  I found it
rather
> folksy in appearance, but a good read.

Yes, it appears hand-written in block capitals, but it's actually
photo-typeset from a hand-drawn font.  There's very little variation in
the letter shapes and none, practically speaking, in the heights and
baseline alignment.  I agree, an unusual appearance but a good book.

There were a number of followups.  "Illustrating FORTRAN" was the
first, I think.  There were various others for specific dialects of
BASIC, and for Pascal, and one called "Illustrating Computers", in the
same style but no longer entirely in BLOCK CAPITALS.  "Illustrating C"
is the most recent and moderately well-known.

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Pete                                           Peter Turnbull
                                               Network Manager
                                               University of York