From boiling lead and black art: The history of mathematical typography (2017)

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drfuchs•about 1 hour ago

Hey, DVI was my suggestion and initial implementation; Knuth's comments in the TeX source code acknowledge this, and they mention plenty more people than Frank Liang who made significant contributions to TeX82: Leo Guibas, Michael Plass, Lyle Ramshaw, Robert Sedgewick, Luis Trabb Pardo, Howard Trickey, Doug Wyatt, and Ignacio Zabala.

sabot90260•4 days ago

Didn't know equation-heavy text was called penalty copy. The expense moved from typesetters to whoever has to learn LaTeX.