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Stop the Math Press's Presses — Knuth Announces iTex

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 1, 2010 @10:40AM 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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Re:Not on the iPhone by lostmongoose · 2010-07-01 10:45 · Score: 5, Insightful

...yes?
Re:Not on the iPhone by msauve · 2010-07-01 11:15 · Score: 5, Insightful

Google is the new Apple
Apple is the new Microsoft
Microsoft is the new IBM
IBM is just old

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Re:Not on the iPhone by bonch · 2010-07-01 11:31 · Score: 4, Insightful

What do you expect? Apple took the wind out of Slashdotters' fantasy of Linux on the desktop supplanting Windows, so there's some bitterness there.
Re:Perspective vs. Tunnel Vision by Abcd1234 · 2010-07-01 17:08 · Score: 5, Insightful

Now I use LaTeX whenever I can since the output is so beautiful and I can type lists and tables a lot faster than I can mouse them in in Word.
And, as a bonus, it's actually amenable to version control. Nothing like being able to throw a document into cvs/svn/git/what-have-you, and have real, sensible diffs to tell you how the document changed over time, without resorting to storing all that version info in the damn document format itself where it can't be accessed by anything but specialized software designed to work with that format.