Philip Taylor, Section "A Brief History of TeX" in Computer Typesetting or Electronic Publishing? New trends in scientific publication, TUGboat 17:4, 1996, 367–372. Taco Hoekwater and Hartmut Henkel: the authors of LuaTeX with Hans Hagen at 2007.Hans Hagen: The author of ConTeXt and co-author of LuaTeX at 2007.Jonathan Kew: the author of XeTeX at 2004.Sebastian Rahtz: The author of JadeTeX at 2001.David Carlisle: the authors of XMLTeX at 2000.Karel Skoupý et al.: the authors of NTS (New Typesetting System) at 1998.Peter Breitenlohner: the author of e-TeX at 1997.dissertation: Micro-typographic extensions to the TeX typesetting system (2.32MB). Hàn Thế Thành: The author of pdfTeX at 1995, his Ph.D.Yannis Haralambous and John Plaice: The author of Omega at 1994 and authors of Aleph.Michel Goossens and Frank Mittelbach: The authors of LaTeX2e at 1994 and core members of The LaTeX3 Project, the main authors of The LaTeX Companion and The LaTeX Graphics Companion.Oren Patashnik: The co-author of BibTeX at 1984.
Leslie Lamport: The author of LaTeX at 1983-1985 and co-author of BibTeX at 1984.Michael Spivak: The author of AMS-TeX and The Joy of TeX: A Gourmet Guide to Typesetting With the AMS-TeX Macro Package at 1983-1985.Donald Ervin Knuth: The father of TeX and METAFONT (classic in SAIL at 1977-1978, final in Pascal at 1982) (and also The Art of Computer Programming, The TeXbook, The METAFONTbook, and Computers and Typesetting).Leese Hotton is a has-been model/actress trying to make a comeback into the spotlight Janice Crawford is a wealthy publisher and control freak whose problems escalate with the arrival of her estranged teenage daughter Halley whom Janice abandoned her and everything else for her career years ago.The Structure of a LaTeX Document and The Layout of the Page:
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