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That's essentially what Knuth did before he started writing The Art of Computer Programming -- build a publishing software, TeX.
by jinwoo68 2y ago
That's essentially what Knuth did before he started writing The Art of Computer Programming -- build a publishing software, TeX.
- evilduck 2y agoThat might have been the right call in ‘78. The first word processor ever only went on sale two years prior.
- eviks 2y agoPublishing software capable of more than Word, not a plain text editor capable of less, the opposite ends of the spectrum
- svat 2y agoJust for the record: Knuth had already published the first three volumes of TAOCP in 1968, 1969, 1973 respectively, and had then brought out the second edition of Vol 1 in 1973, and had already won a Turing award for them in 1974 — it was only in 1977 for the second edition of Volume 2 when the publishers' printing technology had become worse (from hot-metal typesetting to phototypesetting) that he decided to take up the problem, excited at having recently learned of digital typesetters.