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Re: Which editor do you use for math articles

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• Subject: [mg95542] Re: Which editor do you use for math articles
• From: carlos at colorado.edu
• Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:45:39 -0500 (EST)
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On Jan 19, 1:00 am, DrMajorBob <btre... at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> What I find odd is using a text editor for this.
>
> Is TeX a version of HTML, then?
>
> Bobby

The final version of TeX was developed in 1980-81 at Stanford, and was placed
on the public domain in 1982.  It was written in Pascal but the 81 beta
didnt have DVI-to-print drivers.  I wrote the VAX assembly driver for the
Versatek.

HTML came out in 1991-93, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML

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  • Which editor do you use for math articles
    • From: TL <latev@shaw.ca>