March 23, 2011
Back in 1978, when the TeX project began, there were no scalable fonts. If your printer supported 10 point and 12 point text, those were the two sizes you could use in your documents. Even when the Macintosh came along, you still had a fixed set of text sizes, unless you were rich enough to [...]
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March 15, 2011
When I posted that I was going back to using TeX, I mentioned that TeX had changed a lot in 20 years, but didn’t really go into too many details. Time to remedy that. TeX is two layers of software. Underneath is the core of TeX, written in a variant of Pascal. These days it [...]
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March 10, 2011
Last week I had a bad experience with several pieces of office software. It started with a simple enough task: I had some existing documentation, and I needed to extend the “How to perform common tasks” section. There were two sub-headings to add, each of which needed a few bulleted paragraphs of instructions. I fired [...]
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