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@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ In 1968, the first volume was published, at that time still printed using mechan
This method was just disappearing then, and being replaced by new methods.
However, the author did not like the results of those new methods, so,
at the end of the 70s he began to develop his own typesetting system \TeX
at the end of the 70s, he began to develop his own typesetting system \TeX
(pronounced as \emph{tech}\todo{is that a valid transliteration in english?}), named after the ancient Greek word \texttau$\mathrm{\acute{\varepsilon}}$\textchi\textnu\texteta{} (technē) meaning \emph{art, craft}.
Today, Donald Knuth (that is the former student’s name) is a retired professor of computer science and his compiler book has grown to become the multi-volume standard work \emph{The Art of Computer Programming}\,—\,three volumes of which are still to be written, among them the one on compilers.
@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ The current version dates from the mid~90s.
Why are we telling you all of that?
It explains some of the advantages that still distinguish \LaTeX{} today:
It is a mature, stable, and reliable system
that does typesetting in a typographically sophisticated way and mostly auomatically.
that does typesetting in a typographically sophisticated way and mostly automatically.
As the \TeX{} code is stored in plaintext files (c.\,f. \cref{sec:basic-functionality}),
even more advantages arise: