[HN Gopher] The Errors of TeX [pdf] (1989)
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       The Errors of TeX [pdf] (1989)
        
       Author : gus_leonel
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2024-12-12 10:57 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | Syzygies wrote:
       | I too kept a log of my errors in the 1980's, hoping to become a
       | better C programmer. I imagined that with careful enough
       | reflection, I would never make the same mistake twice.
       | 
       | I found the log many years later. Last entry: "Forgot to eat. Got
       | sick."
        
       | bluenose69 wrote:
       | Why is it that pretty much everything Knuth writes is wildly
       | detailed but yet, somehow, deeply engaging?
       | 
       | Maybe I'm such a fan because of many great experiences with tex
       | (and latex). The output is just so beautiful. And the notation
       | (once you get used to the backslashes etc) is so clean.
       | 
       | But, heck, I got hooked when I studied Figure 12 of [1], as an
       | undergraduate leafing through a math journal. At first, I thought
       | "what's wrong with this nutcase, those "s" letters all look fine
       | to me". Then I started to see differences. And then some looked
       | ugly. That one in the middle, though, looked better and better,
       | the more I studied the figure. Pretty soon, I was hooked.
       | 
       | 1. Knuth, Donald E. "Mathematical Typography." Bull. Amer. Math.
       | Soc. (N.S.) 1, no. 2 (March 1979): 337-72.
        
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