The computers used both in the editing and typesetting of this book
were Apple Macintosh.
The Computer Modern font family used throughout the printed version of this book was designed by Donald Knuth, based on the Scotch Roman typeface. The text size used throughout is 12 pt., at the request of the author.
The typesetting of a text for publishing typically
involves a typographic designer, who decides the overall ``look and
feel'' of the document--fonts, spacing, margins, text layout,
etc.--and a typesetter, who turns the general instructions from the
designer, and the text from the editor into the pages of type
comprising a book. Thankfully, several talented and generous people
have built and made freely available tools which allow a computer to help.
The first is TeX, a computer typesetting program developed in the 70's by
Prof. Donald Knuth of Stanford Univ. The second is LaTeX, which acts as
the typographic designer, using TeX to perform the actual
typesetting. Both public domain and commercially supported versions
of these software packages are available for almost all computer
systems.
The computers used both in the editing and typesetting of this book
were Apple Macintosh.
My mother, Janice Threadgill Watlington, has been entering the information for this tome (as well as a greater amount of accompanying genealogical information) into a computer for ten years. It was her perseverance in mastering the new skills necessary that made this book possible, as she entered and edited the texts eventually compiled into this book.
-- John A. Watlington, October, 1997
Malden, Mass.
Recommended Texts:
Lamport, Leslie. LaTeX: A Document Preparation System User's Guide and Reference Manual. Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Reading, Mass., 1994.
Young, Bruce, and Seybold, Catharine, eds. A Manual of Style. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., 12th edition, 1969.
