2008年1月12日星期六

Happy birthday Donald

Good Math, Bad Math : The Genius of Donald Knuth: Typesetting with Boxes and Glue  Annotated


tags: math, people, programming



But on the whole, it's been a great thing. Pick up any conference proceedings from the last 20 years, in the fields of math, computer science, physics, or chemistry (among numerous others), and you'll see the results of TeX layout. Pick up a book published by Springer-Verlag, and it's almost certainly typeset by TeX. Look at Greg Chaitin's books - every one was written using TeX. Look at any typeset equation in pretty much any published source, from websites to conference proceedings, to journals, to textbooks. If the equation looks really good, if everything is in exactly the right place, and every symbol is correctly drawn in relation to everything else - odds are, it was generated by TeX. Even hardcore Microsoft word users generally use something TeX based for doing equations.


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