Stop the Math Press's Presses — Knuth Announces iTex

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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 Stumbles · 2010-07-01 10:46 · Score: 5, Funny

Yes. One bad Apple spoils the whole bunch.

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Re:3D Printing by Anonymous Coward · 2010-07-01 11:03 · Score: 5, Informative

It's usually referred to as Rapid Prototyping, and properties are limited to whatever the particular technology you're using can support. The good news is some companies (disclaimer - previous employer) like Stratasys have evolved their FDM technology to the point of creating usable plastic parts.
Sadly, the venerable, verbose, and error-prone STL file format is still the standard input for most of these systems.
So, perhaps Tex will support STL output for 3D printing :)
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:Enough with the iNames already! by bmo · 2010-07-01 11:17 · Score: 5, Funny

I'd happily write papers in buttplug (pronounced bootploog).
bootploog
Canadian, eh?
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Re:Lame Indeed by makapuf · 2010-07-01 11:21 · Score: 5, Funny

Is it a plane ? Is it a bird ? No, it's a Woosh !
Re:"...the world is still here." by Yoozer · 2010-07-01 11:24 · Score: 5, Funny

criticize the kerning
Perhaps you meant "keming"?
Re:Not on the iPhone by AshtangiMan · 2010-07-01 11:59 · Score: 5, Funny

The new DEC
Re:WTF by Profane+MuthaFucka · 2010-07-01 13:00 · 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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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.