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Abstract:Donald Knuth began the development of TEX in 1977 and had an initial version running in 1978, with the aim of typesetting mathematical documents with the highest quality, and with… Click to show full abstract
Abstract:Donald Knuth began the development of TEX in 1977 and had an initial version running in 1978, with the aim of typesetting mathematical documents with the highest quality, and with archival reproducibility far into the future. Its usage spread, and today the TEX system remains in use by a vibrant user community. However, the world of TEX has always been somewhat out of sync with the commercial desktop publishing systems that began to come out in the mid-1980s and are now ubiquitous in the worlds of publishing and printing.
Journal Title: IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Year Published: 2019
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