Footnotes

... edition.¹¹: Opinion: I actually enjoy reading The ${\mfsl META}$ ${\mfsl FONT\/}$ book, whereas The TEXbook confuses me no end.
... Algol²²: Around 1960, Donald KNUTH worked as an Algol compiler designer.
... loads³³: There are releases of that contain the plain base, and so don't have to load it. However, on most computers, including personal computers, reading bases is so fast that such a preloaded base is unnecessary.
...modes.mf'⁴⁴: Available at ftp.cs.umb.edu in the pub/tex directory.
...DVIPSHEADERS⁵⁵: In version 5.518b, which is forthcoming.
... 5.851d⁶⁶: Available at ftp.cs.umb.edu in the pub/tex directory.
... corrections⁷⁷: Respectively, charht, chardp and charic values.
... somewhat⁸⁸: gt: I've separated this into two (valid, unix Bourne shell) lines, to fit into the text width of this document.