On 5/21/2014 8:16 AM, Philipp Gesang wrote:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2213858&WT.mc_id=Author_Knuth_20Questions
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“The people at MSP wrote special software that converts my TeX source text into suitable input to other software that creates pdf files.”
I wonder why using a TeX engine capable of producing PDF output directly wasn’t an option.
The part about "geeks" of 200 years ago is interesting. Also this: local quote = [[ I still think many years will have to go by before I would recommend that my own highly intelligent wife, son, and daughter should learn to program, much less that everybody else I know should do so.]] local maybe = string.gsub(quote,"program","TeX") Who knows ... Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------