Mark Chu-Carroll explains just why Donald Knuth’s TeX is so cool. To this day, I write all my correspondence in LaTeX; it’s a wonderful tool (for one thing, the LaTeX logo actually looks good when properly typeset).
07 February 2018: updated URL
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Mark Chu-Carroll explains just why Donald Knuth’s TeX is so cool. To this day, I write all my correspondence in LaTeX; it’s a wonderful tool (for one thing, the LaTeX logo actually looks good when properly typeset).
07 February 2018: updated URL
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TeX by Topic is now available as a PDF on the web, directly from the author. Very cool.
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TeX by Topic is now available as a PDF on the web, directly from the author. Very cool.
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All I can say about TeX is this:
Knuth says that TeX is for producing beautiful documents, and he went to great lengths to build in a lot of typographic know-how. The hyphenation algorithm alone was the subject of a PhD thesis.
I credit LaTeX for my excellent grades as a senior in college. My writing hadn’t improved that much — ’twas all the text formatting. Great beautiful margin, footnotes like God meant them to be, mathematical equations Euler would kill for: LaTeX is where it’s at.
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All I can say about TeX is this:
Knuth says that TeX is for producing beautiful documents, and he went to great lengths to build in a lot of typographic know-how. The hyphenation algorithm alone was the subject of a PhD thesis.
I credit LaTeX for my excellent grades as a senior in college. My writing hadn’t improved that much — ’twas all the text formatting. Great beautiful margin, footnotes like God meant them to be, mathematical equations Euler would kill for: LaTeX is where it’s at.
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