The main TeX typographical system' pieces have been fully described par Donald E. Knuth (see below for references). What is missing is the description of the system, that is explanations about how all the pieces fit together and, with supplementary utilities, for a whole. This is on the todo list but, for now, you will have to do with the kerTeX notes...
A presentation about kerTeX has been made during the "Journée GUTenberg 2024", at the ENS, rue d'Ulm, Paris. Here are the main points of the presentation (french only for now; the document will be translated in english later, completed with what has been said, and further nourrished with supplementary explanations that were not given during the lecture) presentation of kerTeX during the "Journée GUTenberg 2024" (french) .
The definitive documentation about TeX, METAFONT and the CM fonts is Donald E. Knuth's five volums series Computers & Typesetting, Addison-Wesley.
À propos the TeX story and differents tehcnical points, see Donald E. Knuth, Digital Typography, CSLI.
| File | Language | Description | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|
| dvips.pdf | en | DVIPS: a TeX driver | Tomas Rokicki |
| mpintro.pdf | en | The MetaPost System | John D. Hobby |
| cstr_162.pdf | en | A User's Manual for MetaPost | John D. Hobby |
| cstr_164.pdf | en | Drawing Graphs with MetaPost | John D. Hobby |
| README | en | Notes about kerTeX | Thierry Laronde |