Robert A. Uhl

The genius of Donald Knuth

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 Read more →

The genius of Donald Knuth

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 Read more →

TeX by Topic

TeX by Topic is now available as a PDF on the web, directly from the author. Very cool. Read more →

TeX by Topic

TeX by Topic is now available as a PDF on the web, directly from the author. Very cool. Read more →

TeX

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. Read more →

TeX

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. Read more →