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Color Key: Serious Technical Mistake Minor Technical Mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question
| Version | Location | Description | Submitted By |
|---|---|---|---|
| Printed | Page all Throughout entire book |
In all code listings, negative numbers are incomplete. Only the minus sign is present--values are |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page Appendix A various: heading => header |
Anonymous | |
| Printed | Page 12 5th paragraph |
Dates seem wrong, says point unit invented in 1699, refined in 1664. Probably a typo for 1764 - I don't think Fournier was born yet in 1664. |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 12 5th paragraph |
dates seem wrong, says point unit invented in 1699, refined in 1664. |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 18 Figure 0-6 |
B. TeX et [omega] fonts => B. TeX and [omega] fonts |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 28 small paragraph between the CCITT code tables |
Here "LF" is carriage return, ... |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 29 first para under ASCII |
June 17, 1963 is a few months before the assassination of President Kennedy, not a few months after. |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 31 2nd paragraph |
JIS C-6220 => JIS C 6220 |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 32 line -5 |
with 2^12 = 4,096 bits => with 12 bits (2^12 = 4,096 patterns) |
Anonymous |
| Page 34 Figure 1-2 |
the index of the cells in Figure 1-2 "seems" wrong: |
Anonymous | |
| Printed | Page 36 line -6 |
'1a, '2o', etc. => '1a', '2o', etc. |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 45 3rd paragraph |
xE1 => 0xE1 |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 45 end of the 3rd paragraph |
.. => .... |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 47 last paragraph |
xA1, xBC, F5 => 0xA1, 0xBC, 0xF5 |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 48 3rd paragraph |
'a (0xBE) => 'a' (0xBE) |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 50-51 bottom and next page |
In the book on pages 50 and 51 there are several instances of ``iso--'' which should be ``iso-8859-1'' or |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 59 footnote |
'a' 'o' => 'a', 'o' |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 62 last pargraph |
for "CES") => (or "CES") |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 67 2nd paragraph |
(Quote from Window n, => (Quote from Window n), |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 69 Figure 2-2 |
Allocated Codepoints => Allocated codepoints |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 81 ideographic abbrevations |
groups of 4 to 6 katakana => groups of 2 to 6 katakana |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 82 penultimate paragraph |
"actually made of ** characters" -- should ** be something else? |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 84 It looks like there's a figure 2.6 for Plane 14 which has been truncated |
Anonymous | |
| Printed | Page 87 line -17 |
The code point range given as |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 89 Ol Chiki |
These glyphs are not Ol Chiki but Cirth. |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 90 Avestan |
The 3d century CE => the 3rd century CE |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 91 Samaritan |
These glyphs are not Samaritan but South Arabian. |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 96 last line |
Latin- Supplement => Latin-1 supplement |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 97 5th paragraph |
Canadian_aboriginal => Canadian_Aboriginal |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 102 last paragraph |
under Unix, it is NL; => under Unix, it is LF; |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 106 3rd paragraph |
<control->..<control-D> => <control-0009>..<control-000D> |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 107 4th paragraph |
"other, surrogate" characters => "other, surrogate" characters Cs |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 108 penultimate paragraph |
0x1D400-0x0x1D7FF => 0x1D400-0x1D7F |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 109 penultimate paragraph |
the "hyphen" property => the "terminal punctuation" property |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 113 3rd paragraph |
03C3 => 0x03C3 |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 120 errant formatting commands (setlength extrarowheight0dd) appear at the bottom of the page. |
Anonymous | |
| Printed | Page 123 8th line from bottom |
<<thus we see that the canonical decomposition of ' '>> |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 123 8th line from bottom |
<<thus we see that the canonical decomposition of ' '>> |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 169 first line (sample XML document) |
book shows |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 169 start of bottom example: missing number from id attribute |
Anonymous | |
| Printed | Page 185 UCS-2LE: change 0x10ffff to 0xffff |
Anonymous | |
| Printed | Page 188 5th paragraph, 5th sentence |
"it opens like any other file" should be "it opens like any other directory" because the behavior |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 190 1st full paragraph in list item # 1 |
"only a handful of Macintoshes" should be "only a handful of fonts" |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 211 Text describes two fonts as very similar to Linotype Palatino but the diagram shows 5. |
Anonymous | |
| Printed | Page 223 example font name: probably missing some numbers |
Anonymous | |
| Printed | Page 227 examples missing numbers in font names |
Anonymous | |
| Printed | Page 229 examples missing numbers in font names |
Anonymous | |
| Printed | Page 229-230 passim |
These two pages contain complex instructions on installing fonts under X-window. This information may |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 231 example near bottom of page missing numbers in font name |
Anonymous | |
| Printed | Page 244 first table |
The fontseries entry for ultra-bold should be ``ub'' not ``ul'' |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 262 code example |
There seems to be general problem regarding code examples: |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 327-328 More missing numbers in the examples |
Anonymous | |
| Printed | Page 327 Example is Charcoal,Omega,Heisei but the penultimate paragraph implies order Omega,Charcoal,Heisei |
Anonymous | |
| Printed | Page 331 Example is missing various digits in the widths: line |
Anonymous | |
| Printed | Page 356 Text implies missing-glyph is mandatory but the example at the end of the page omits it. |
Anonymous | |
| Printed | Page 356 5th paragraph |
the sentence is written as: |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 363 Glyph for Q on this page is unreadable. |
Anonymous | |
| Printed | Page 449 The example is 'MacOS Roman' but the text talks about 'MacRoman' |
Anonymous | |
| Printed | Page 634 Bottom / entirety of B.4 |
It appears that much of the text in B.4, the section on OVF, was copied from B.2, the section on OFM, but not updated correctly. For example, they both start out with the the phrase "The OFM format was defined by John Plaice and the author..." even those B.4 is supposed to be explaining the OVF format not OFM as B.2 does. For example, the last sentence in each section is verbatim identical as well. |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 647 |
%!PS-Adobe-.0 |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 648 "(note: just one 't')" is not relevant in English, as 'atend' is obviously 'at-end' and not 'wait' (attend) |
Anonymous | |
| Printed | Page 652 |
/FontBBox [- - 1006 747] def |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 667 |
30 63 vstem 413 63 vstem - 50 hstem 634 50 hstem |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 670 code example (rmoveto, rcurveto) |
Anonymous | |
| Printed | Page 672 code example (callothersubr) |
Anonymous | |
| Printed | Page 676 |
KPX F comma - |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 679 |
/FontBBox {{- - - -} ... |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 680 code example (callsubr) |
Anonymous | |
| Printed | Page 690 |
/FontBbox [ - - 1023 900 ] def |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 691 |
/BlueValues [ - 0 800 806 550 575 ] def |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 698 |
<FontBBox value="- - 1195 940"/> |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 699 code example (hhcurveto) |
Anonymous | |
| Printed | Page 702 2nd paragraph |
It appears that the hintmasks related to Figure C-17(a) reverse the vertical and horizontal hints. The |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 716 |
<xMin value="-"/> |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 717 |
<descent value="-"/> |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 726 |
<underlinePosition value="-"/> |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 728 |
<pt x="44" y="-" on="1"/> |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 729 |
<pt x="780" y="-" on="1"/> |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 744 |
<pair l="A" r="S" v="-"/> |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 744 example missing digits in the v attributes |
Anonymous | |
| Printed | Page 748 |
<record yMax="7" yMin="-" ... |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 749 |
<descent value="-"/> |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 751 end of D.9: D.11 is not the following section |
Anonymous | |
| Printed | Page 756, 757 |
<MinCoord value="-"/> |
Anonymous |
| Printed | Page 948 |
(948) 'special version TeX' => 'special version of TeX' |
Anonymous |
