Knuth announces iTeX
July 3rd, 2010 by darioNew to AcademicProductivity.com?
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Donald Knuth announced he would make an earthshaking announcement at TUG 2010. The breaking news is the plan to release the next-generation TeX engine. Read the comments and a brief summary of the announcement in perfect Stevenote style from Slashdot.
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July 3rd, 2010 at 4:42 pm
April fools’ day came late this year! :Op
August 8th, 2010 at 7:57 am
Knuth is always full of surprises. I remember reading about his reward check.
July 25th, 2011 at 6:18 am
It was there he announced the XML-based successor to TeX, ”iTeX”, which supports features such as arbitrarily scaled irrational units, stereographic sound and 3D printing.
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Heidi