TeX Typesetting System

Discussions center on Donald Knuth's TeX typesetting system, its origins from dissatisfaction with 1970s digital typesetting, implementation in Pascal, enduring relevance, and modern alternatives like Typst and Tectonic.

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neilv Nov 16, 2023 View on HN

Like Knuth and TeX (and fonts, etc.).

omouse Nov 10, 2009 View on HN

Where's Donald Knuth and TeX?! ;p

Natsu Nov 16, 2015 View on HN

What about Donald Knuth and TeX?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX

jleyank Apr 3, 2009 View on HN

Didn't Knuth implement TeX in order to typeset his papers to his satisfaction? If so, I think the coder level fits...

SiempreViernes Jul 1, 2021 View on HN

Better go with TeX if you're going into the Turing complete typesetting language niche, a Knuth product has more street cred.

william42 Nov 15, 2011 View on HN

Didn't Knuth write TeX in a variant of Pascal?

khaled May 1, 2017 View on HN

Because he wrote TeX and Plain TeX to cover his needs (writing TAOCP mostly), which might not be the same as everyone else’s?

_delirium Oct 29, 2015 View on HN

XeTeX and LuaTeX are projects you might be interested in.

daniel-thompson Feb 21, 2022 View on HN

Not a language in the way you mean, but TeX did this a while back.

m000 Sep 29, 2018 View on HN

Any guesses for the typesetting system used to produce this paper? Is that troff or something even older?