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Because typography is _hard_ --- Dr. Donald E. Knuth thought he would write a typesetting system while on sabbatical --- 10 years later we had TeX. Storage was
by WillAdams 2y ago
Because typography is _hard_ --- Dr. Donald E. Knuth thought he would write a typesetting system while on sabbatical --- 10 years later we had TeX.
Storage was also an issue --- back in the early days of personal computers, they took up so much space that I would often set up a networked CD-drive with the BitStream 500 font CD-ROM which fonts could then be copied from to be used.