Thousands of TeX fonts at your fingertips (Linux.com)

Thousands of TeX fonts at your fingertips (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 25, 2006 23:06 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Thousands of TeX fonts at your fingertips (Linux.com) by xoddam
Parent article: Thousands of TeX fonts at your fingertips (Linux.com)

No, that's not strong enough. Knuth's reaction when someone (Slackware?)
*did* fiddle some tiny detail of Computer Modern without changing the name
makes it clear that this is more than mere copyright :)

Forget Linus getting religious about the GPL. Knuth's religious about TeX
producing identical consistent output everywhere, everywhen. Look at the
TRIP and TRAP tests: output computed *by hand* and then compared with the
machine's idea of it.

That sort of monastic dedication to the most nanoscopic details... *that*
is religious programming. (And it's really very impressive... from a very
long way away.)

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