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Stop the Math Press's Presses — Knuth Announces iTex

Posted by timothy on from the now-with-more-highly-integrated-business-principles dept.

After Donald Knuth's anticipated "earthshaking announcement," it's safe to say that the world is still here. yowlanku writes "Christoper Adams tweeted live from TUG 2010 Conference that 'Donald Knuth's TeX successor will be named iTeX.' " Knuth "also stated that this successor of TeX will have features like 3-D printing, animation, stereographic sound."

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  1. Not on the iPhone by biryokumaru · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hear it's already been rejected from the App store.

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    1. Re:Not on the iPhone by Locke2005 · · Score: 4, Funny

      What did he expect? It supports printing!

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    2. Re:Not on the iPhone by Stumbles · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yes. One bad Apple spoils the whole bunch.

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    3. Re:Not on the iPhone by vivian · · Score: 3, Funny

      It's the karmic company cycle.

      One of these days IBM will die and then reincarnate as the new Google.

    4. Re:Not on the iPhone by MaskedSlacker · · Score: 3, Funny

      Monkeys even.

    5. Re:Not on the iPhone by binarylarry · · Score: 2, Funny

      More like a library of congress.

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    6. Re:Not on the iPhone by multi+io · · Score: 2, Funny

      Thank you, Sigmund.

    7. Re:Not on the iPhone by AshtangiMan · · Score: 5, Funny

      The new DEC

  2. Lame. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    What?

    No Twitter integration?

  3. Bummer. by dgatwood · · Score: 3, Funny

    We were all hoping he'd announce proof that P = NP....

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    1. Re:Bummer. by martin-boundary · · Score: 4, Funny

      The way I see it, he's announced that the proof of P = NP will fit easily in the margin of an iTeX file...

  4. Enough with the iNames already! by Cordath · · Score: 4, Funny

    Name it after some other deliberately mispronounced form of fetish-wear. I'd happily write papers in buttplug (pronounced bootploog).

    1. Re:Enough with the iNames already! by bmo · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'd happily write papers in buttplug (pronounced bootploog).

      bootploog

      Canadian, eh?

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    2. Re:Enough with the iNames already! by Pfhorrest · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'd happily write papers in buttplug (pronounced bootploog).

      Needs more umlauts for that:

      Büttplüg.

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    3. Re:Enough with the iNames already! by bandwidthcrisis · · Score: 2, Funny

      Name it after some other deliberately mispronounced form of fetish-wear.

      I always thought that "per-vertex" (as in "per-vertex lighting") sounded like that.

    4. Re:Enough with the iNames already! by Eternal+Vigilance · · Score: 2, Funny

      A hollow voice says "BÜTTPLÜG"

      There's a reason Will Crowther changed the name of the game from "Colossal Cave Adventure" to just "Adventure."

      (Sadly, an entire line of Infocom fetish followups was never to be.)

  5. This version of iTex is junk. by TheRedDuke · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wait for build 1729.

  6. Re:"...the world is still here." by Martin+Blank · · Score: 3, Funny

    Apparently, typesetting is one of those things that can grab hold of you and never let go. I know a couple of people who were trained in typesetting, and they can't seem to help but criticize the kerning and leading of... well, just about everything printed.

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  7. this was... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    your one and only chance today to claim "1st iPost" but nooooo, you had to do something else instead...

  8. Re:Some details from the conference by zippthorne · · Score: 3, Funny

    It seems we have no time to lose in bringing out a new typesetting engine!

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  9. Re:Perspective vs. Tunnel Vision by icebike · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's not fair.

    All 27 users of TeX will be quite excited about this.

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  10. Re:Lame Indeed by makapuf · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is it a plane ? Is it a bird ? No, it's a Woosh !

  11. Re:"...the world is still here." by Yoozer · · Score: 5, Funny

    criticize the kerning

    Perhaps you meant "keming"?

  12. Animations... hmm by SteveFoerster · · Score: 2, Funny

    Animations? So with a buildup like that we get... a blink tag?

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  13. It's three months late. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It amazes me how many people take this seriously.

    It reads just like the Kernighan & Ritchie C "admission" or RFC 1149.

    Jeez folks. It's a JOKE.

  14. So... how long before.... by Izhido · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... Apple sues Knuth for infringing trademarks over the use of the "i" in iTex?

  15. Re:WTF by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 5, Funny

    I know, WTF indeed. This iTEX is even going to have TrueType fonts! And he rewrote it in Java. Knuth has really gone soft in his old age.

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  16. Knuthing to see here by CrazyJim1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    please move along

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  17. I hope this is real by drewhk · · Score: 2, Funny

    I hope this is real, because this would be very bad for a joke.

  18. Re:"...the world is still here." by Trogre · · Score: 2, Funny

    For the IIIrd time, I'll Hear No Ill Spoken of Problems with Fonts.

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