Re:I found Katherine Johnson's calculations at NASA [video]
by mindcrime on Monday May 23, 2022 @02:44PM
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Heh, that's a really interesting question. It's easy to forget that not everybody lived in the world of PC's running TeX / LaTeX, and Postscript enabled laser printers, etc. I have no idea how math got typeset back in those days... I'm too young to have any appreciation for that era in that regard.
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Re:I found Katherine Johnson's calculations at NASA [video]
by bombcar on Monday May 23, 2022 @03:28PM
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TeX was specifically written because Knuth was unhappy when his books went from being delicately hand-set by someone to being produced by a computer.
Re:I found Katherine Johnson's calculations at NASA [video]
by ncphil on Monday May 23, 2022 @11:05PM
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It was the transition of commercial printing technology from "hot lead" typesetting machines (big brothers of the Linotype beasts I helped maintain while in college) to photo-offset, during which the fonts Knuth loved got "left behind" (as so often happens as proprietary tech evolves), that led him to write his own typesetting system. In the early 90s I used both vde with troff and TeX through grad school on a Kaypro 1 running CP/M. TeX was definitely the superior system for the kind of research papers I was writing (Chicago Style cites, mixed Latin and Greek text, annotated bibliographies).