Donald Knuth is renowned for offering a bounty for bugs found in TeX. Many of these checks remain forever uncashed, the recipients rightly regarding the signed check an honor greater than the money it represents. Sadly, this practice has come to an end. No Donald Kuth has not died, nor is he, like Ringo Starr, […]
MacTeX 2008 has just been released. Here are some of the new features:
Packages in TeX Live 2008 can be updated over the internet. This is a major advance in the distribution. See documentation about the TeX Live Manager for details, and read the tlmgr man page. Additional documentation for the Mac is forthcoming; see the […]
Donald Knuth, creator of TeX, describes his workflow for writing in an interview:
My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine, using the conventions of TeX. I use tex, dvips, and gv to […]
There is a nice piece in the Stanford Magazine about Donald Knuth author of TeX and METAFONT. Frustration with the quality of mathematical typesetting and the fact that publishers were moving from manual to digital layout prompted Knuth to write TeX:
It had changed into a problem of bits, zeroes and ones. You put […]
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