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21 May
2014
21 May
'14
12:16 a.m.
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2213858&WT.mc_id=Author_Knuth_20Questions Quote: “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. Best, Philipp