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 (DIR) Post #AkRJ7BMYIhtYPpV67U by leaverou@front-end.social
       2024-07-29T12:44:41Z
       
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       Whenever I feel bad about yak shaving, I’m reminded of Donald Knuth.Apparently, he was writing his masterwork “The Art of Computer Programming” and decided to take a few weeks to write a better typesetter.Thus, TeX was born.10 years later he returned to continue the writing of the actual book…
       
 (DIR) Post #AkRJB2rfq1nbDYtpJI by rajeesh@aana.site
       2024-07-29T14:25:46Z
       
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       @leaverou While working on TeX, he also had to write a font development software.Thus, METAFONT was born.
       
 (DIR) Post #AkRSshegxFCjlcigWu by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2024-07-30T02:20:10Z
       
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       @leaverou I lurved TeX.I wrote a punk zine, HOMOCORE, in plain TeX. On an OS/2 machine running desqview and some nifty extended memory manager, I forget. Priter connected via ARCnet! lol. Hanging punctuation in places! Dictionary density...printed on a 24-wire NEC printer, strips cut and glue-sticked onto the pasteup sheet for newsprint production.One other zine used TeX, THE PENUMBRA, out of NYC. It was a hilarious sendup of the self-serious THE SHADOW zine.https://www.sensitiveresearch.com/Archive/HOMOCORE/index.html