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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 AshtangiMan · · Score: 5, Funny

      The new DEC

  2. 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:Lame Indeed by makapuf · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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

    criticize the kerning

    Perhaps you meant "keming"?

  5. 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...

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

    please move along

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