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Leslie Lamport built Knuth's TeX into the user-friendly version to which he appended the first two letters of his surname: LaTeX. He wrote an excellent, highly
by nanna 4y ago
Leslie Lamport built Knuth's TeX into the user-friendly version to which he appended the first two letters of his surname: LaTeX. He wrote an excellent, highly accessible guide, LaTeX: A Document Preparation System, which I wish I read before setting off on a thousand random web pages.
- contingencies 4y agoThis paper is a case study of program evolution. The author kept track of all changes made to TEX during a period of ten years, including the changes made when the original program was first debugged in 1978. The log book of these errors, numbering more than 850 items, appears as an appendix to this paper. The errors have been classified into fifteen categories for purposes of analysis. I came to the conclusion that the designer of a new system must not only be the implementor and the first large-scale user; the designer should also write the first user manual. - Donald Knuth, 'The Errors of TeX' (1989) https://yurichev.com/mirrors/knuth1989.pdf https://yurichev.com/mirrors/knuth1989.pdf (4.8MB) ... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
- globular-toast 4y agoWhy did I never notice the "La" came from his name? Most people pronounce it like the rubber you get from a tree but my PhD supervisor pronounced it more like "Lah-Tech". I guess that is the correct pronunciation!