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Literally why TeX exists. Donald Knuth couldn't tolerate the poor quality of digital typesetting.
by shliachtx 9y ago
Literally why TeX exists. Donald Knuth couldn't tolerate the poor quality of digital typesetting.
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- wolfi1 9y agothat's not entirely correct. when linotype was dumped phototypesetting was introduced. and it seems it was not possible to reintroduce the typesetting of the linotype age. DEK wanted to have a digital typesetter reproducing the same quality of linotype. if the typesetting of that time and if it was digital at all was poor quality is unbeknownst to me