Stop the Math Press's Presses — Knuth Announces iTex 284
After Donald Knuth's anticipated "earthshaking announcement," it's safe to say that the world is still here. yowlanku writes "Christoper Adams tweeted live from TUG 2010 Conference that 'Donald Knuth's TeX successor will be named iTeX.' " Knuth "also stated that this successor of TeX will have features like 3-D printing, animation, stereographic sound."
Not on the iPhone (Score:5, Funny)
Lame. (Score:3, Funny)
What?
No Twitter integration?
Re:Not on the iPhone (Score:5, Funny)
Bummer. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Not on the iPhone (Score:5, Funny)
Enough with the iNames already! (Score:5, Funny)
Name it after some other deliberately mispronounced form of fetish-wear. I'd happily write papers in buttplug (pronounced bootploog).
This version of iTex is junk. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:"...the world is still here." (Score:4, Funny)
Apparently, typesetting is one of those things that can grab hold of you and never let go. I know a couple of people who were trained in typesetting, and they can't seem to help but criticize the kerning and leading of... well, just about everything printed.
this was... (Score:2, Funny)
your one and only chance today to claim "1st iPost" but nooooo, you had to do something else instead...
Re:Some details from the conference (Score:4, Funny)
It seems we have no time to lose in bringing out a new typesetting engine!
Re:Enough with the iNames already! (Score:5, Funny)
I'd happily write papers in buttplug (pronounced bootploog).
bootploog
Canadian, eh?
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Re:Perspective vs. Tunnel Vision (Score:3, Funny)
That's not fair.
All 27 users of TeX will be quite excited about this.
Re:Lame Indeed (Score:5, Funny)
Is it a plane ? Is it a bird ? No, it's a Woosh !
Re:Not on the iPhone (Score:3, Funny)
It's the karmic company cycle.
One of these days IBM will die and then reincarnate as the new Google.
Re:Not on the iPhone (Score:4, Funny)
Monkeys even.
Re:"...the world is still here." (Score:5, Funny)
Perhaps you meant "keming"?
Re:Bummer. (Score:5, Funny)
Animations... hmm (Score:3, Funny)
Animations? So with a buildup like that we get... a blink tag?
Re:Not on the iPhone (Score:3, Funny)
More like a library of congress.
Re:Not on the iPhone (Score:3, Funny)
It's three months late. (Score:1, Funny)
It amazes me how many people take this seriously.
It reads just like the Kernighan & Ritchie C "admission" or RFC 1149.
Jeez folks. It's a JOKE.
Re:Not on the iPhone (Score:5, Funny)
So... how long before.... (Score:2, Funny)
... Apple sues Knuth for infringing trademarks over the use of the "i" in iTex?
Re:Enough with the iNames already! (Score:5, Funny)
I'd happily write papers in buttplug (pronounced bootploog).
Needs more umlauts for that:
Büttplüg.
Re:WTF (Score:5, Funny)
I know, WTF indeed. This iTEX is even going to have TrueType fonts! And he rewrote it in Java. Knuth has really gone soft in his old age.
Knuthing to see here (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Enough with the iNames already! (Score:2, Funny)
Name it after some other deliberately mispronounced form of fetish-wear.
I always thought that "per-vertex" (as in "per-vertex lighting") sounded like that.
Re:Enough with the iNames already! (Score:3, Funny)
There's a reason Will Crowther changed the name of the game from "Colossal Cave Adventure" to just "Adventure."
(Sadly, an entire line of Infocom fetish followups was never to be.)
I hope this is real (Score:3, Funny)
I hope this is real, because this would be very bad for a joke.
Re:"...the world is still here." (Score:3, Funny)
For the IIIrd time, I'll Hear No Ill Spoken of Problems with Fonts.