讀到第4章,我猜王垠說 #TeX 是魔鬼棋,是因為有特例,讓使用者驚訝為什麼會這樣吧
#TeXBook
#聯邦宇宙的讀書聲

@workingdraft Beim Thema "text-wrap: pretty" aus eurem Podcast State of CSS, Teil 2. musste ich schmunzeln: The TeXbook, 1984, Kapitel 14

"One of a typesetting systems chief duties it to take a long sequence of words and to break it up into individual lines of the appropriate size." Es folgen 35 Seiten wie man das implementiert. Mit Parametern wie parshape, hangindent, hangafter, looseness.

Ich frage mich oft, ob die, die CSS definieren das Buch kennen. 😀

#tex #texlatex #html #texbook

@flippac @cstross I mean it's obvious shit like #Astrohaus is a #grift aimed at exploiting #TechIlliterate #GareGivers and #Parents who don't know better.

It's like a lot of shit solutions pushed towards #disabled and #needy people.

Speaking of "breaking childrens necks":
We could've had all the #Schoolbooks as #ePub textbooks over 25 years ago but #Texbook #Publishers refused to make that possible, so kids lugged around up to 20kg of books depending on their schedule and homework assignments.

@sam That’s a good question! You can find the answer in the excelent #TeXbook by Donald Knuth himself:

Right on page ii he writes: ‘Copyright © 1984’

I’m sure that cleared things up.

And before you ask: yes, I happened to have a copy of the book on my desk...