Month: August 2010
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The World of Don Knuth
Read more: The World of Don KnuthI was often astounded by the tastes, particularly the choice of literary works and movies, of Don Knuth who is a mathematician and computer scientist by training and profession. Most of the computer scientists I know are wary of reading anything outside their realm of knowledge. If you tell them anything about existentialism or postmodern…
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Write registers in TeX
Read more: Write registers in TeXThe io registers in TeX are often a matter of severe limitation. When we try to typeset a document that loads a lot of packages, it becomes a non-trivial task to satisfy register requirements of various packages that compete each other.
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Plain TeX and TeX4ht
Read more: Plain TeX and TeX4htIf you try to generate html version of your plain TeX document using a combination of pdfTeX and TeX4ht, you will find terrible mismatches and html version will not be generated.
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My Dreams
Read more: My DreamsI have two dreams — one is the sustainable community and the other is an autobiographical manual of TeX programming.