Production costs are fairly high as books can be typeset in one location , printed in a second and bound in a third , many of these in continental europe .
The new york times estimated that to " convert the text to a digital file , typeset it in digital form and copy-edit it " costs a mere 50 .
纽约时报则估算“将文本数字化，加以数字式排字并审稿”的总成本只有50美分。
After finishing volume iii of the art of computer programming in 1976 , knuth took what was supposed to be a year off to write the typesetting software tex and metafont so he could see his books typeset to his own satisfaction .
