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@Article{Andre:EPODD-6-3-115,
  author =       "Jacques Andr{\'e} and Jakob Gonczarowski and Richard
                 Southall",
  title =        "Editorial: Special issue: {Proceedings of the Raster
                 Imaging and Digital Typography Conference}",
  journal =      j-EPODD,
  volume =       "6",
  number =       "3",
  pages =        "115--116",
  month =        sep,
  year =         "1993",
  CODEN =        "EPODEU",
  ISSN =         "0894-3982",
  bibdate =      "Thu Jun 2 10:04:26 1994",
  bibsource =    "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/epodd.bib",
  abstract =     "This issue of {\em Electronic Publishing\/} contains
                 the papers presented during the third Raster Imaging
                 and Digital Typography conference, held at Darmstadt,
                 Germany, from 11 to 13 April 1994. Earlier conferences
                 in the series took place in 1989 at Lausanne,
                 Switzerland (organized by Roger D. Hersch, EPFL) and in
                 1991 at Boston, Massachussets (organized by Robert A.
                 Morris, University of Massachussets at Boston). The
                 corresponding proceedings are published by Cambridge
                 University Press (see below). Digital typography is a
                 relatively new field: the first commercial
                 cathode-ray-tube photo\-composing machine appeared in
                 1966. Since that time, the field has been growing very
                 fast, and is still active. During the RIDT'89
                 conference, emphasis was laid on the rasterisation of
                 outline characters and on rendering techniques. RIDT'91
                 concentrated more on digital halftoning and on
                 greyscale characters. However, both of these
                 conferences bore in mind that beyond the mathematics of
                 shapes and their rendering, printing types exist with
                 their own aesthetic rules. That is why the
                 presentations were made by a mix of technologists,
                 scientists and designers. The RIDT'94 programme
                 committee tried to attract a similar mix of papers when
                 this conference was launched. As expected, the fields
                 have moved on since the last conference, but we hope
                 that the selected papers adequately exhibit the present
                 state of the art in raster imaging and digital
                 typography. In the recent past, formal research in
                 digital typography has dealt with graphical algorithms,
                 such as the rendering of outline characters and the
                 generation of outline characters from bit-mapped
                 drawings, to name but two. Present research focuses on
                 models and methods for concise but precise font
                 description and modelling. That trend began in industry
                 with font interpolation programs and font systems such
                 as Adobe Systems' Multiple Master technology. This
                 research definitively belongs to computer science, with
                 keywords such as {\em object orientation}, {\em regular
                 expressions}, {\em string matching\/} and {\em shape
                 parameterization}. A look at related fields, such as
                 computer-aided design, shows that there still remains
                 plenty of mathematical research to be done in digital
                 typography. Mathematics is already used in CAD to
                 express aesthetic criteria, both at the local
                 (individual curves/surfaces) and the global level, for
                 ensuring overall appearance and design consistency.
                 \ldots{}.",
}

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