BookReview Mathematical Illustrations : AManual of Geometry and PostScript
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High quality mathematical illustration has long been a specialized craft, akin to the layout ofmusical scores or mathematical formulæ. Illustrating a proof, or drawing a graph, used to be difficult, and it is easy to find errors in the drawings in old books. Drawing errors are of course a problem for the understanding of a proof. Unfortunately, such cases are still common in the current scientific literature, perhaps because mouse-made drawings do not take full advantage of the power now available. The shift of power, from hand-quality drawings to computer-quality drawings, goesback to the 1970s and started with the advent of good printers. New computer languages were developed for graphical tasks. In 1981, Brian Kernighan described his high-level PIC language for typesetting graphics [3]. At about the same time, the first version of the PostScript language was made public. Unlike languages such as PIC, PostScriptwas designednot as a user-oriented language but rather as a page description language to serve as an interface between graphics-producing software and printers. Printers with PostScript interpreters were then manufactured, and consequently software was written to produce PostScript files. Thesefileswere
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