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Comment by voxelghost

7 hours ago

Wasnt the original famously in written with Fountain pen? And the typed out version reproduced much later?

He typed them until 1979 when his typewriter stopped working correctly.

  • Well - in this case the EWD in TFA - has a footer that says.

        transcribed by Tristram Brelstaff
        revised Fri, 19 Nov 2010
    

    And so seem to be the case with most of the other EWDs I looked at as well.

Luca Cardelli created the handwritten typeface Dijkstra font in the late 1980s, to mimic the distinctive and precise handwriting of his colleague Edsger W. Dijkstra.

It shipped as a free PostScript font with NeWS:

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/NeWS/fonts/Dijkstra.ps

https://lucacardelli.name/indexartifacts.html

(You have to click on the "Fonts" tab, there's no direct link to it.)

Dijkstra [.ttf (2013 updated version by Reuben Thomas)] [.zip (old PC)] [.hqx (old Mac)] [Preview.pdf]

A beautiful handwriting font of unknown origin, first popularized by E.W.Dijkstra. Excellent for slides that appear to be carefully written, and for short, deep technical notes.

https://lucacardelli.name/Artifacts/Fonts/Pc/dijkstra.ttf

https://lucacardelli.name/Artifacts/Fonts/Pc/Dijkstra.zip

https://lucacardelli.name/Artifacts/Fonts/Mac/Dijkstra.sea.h...

https://lucacardelli.name/Artifacts/Fonts/Dijkstra.pdf