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A Quarter Century Of Naive Use And Abuse Of LaTeX Alan Wetmore alan.wetmore@gmail.com 1 Thursday, August 7, 14

OUTLINE Prehistory First Implementation Early Years Middle Years Recent Events 2 Thursday, August 7, 14

PREHISTORY 1970...1987 MIT College Years Graduate School 3 Thursday, August 7, 14

FIRST IMPLEMENTATION 1988 Atmospheric Science LAB The University of Washington Unix Tape BRL Aberdeen Visit Compiling Again Installation: One Short Page, It works! Compiling for HP-UX TUG The Discovery 4 Thursday, August 7, 14

EARLY YEARS: PART THE FIRST Learning ... TUG Conferences 1990 .... 2014 Reading LaTeX Source Code Roadblocks ... Guerrilla Typesetting TUGBOAT Tweaking font bitmaps for di ff erent laser printer engines comp.text.tex Exploring fonts cmulctt, tiling??? texhax digest 5 Thursday, August 7, 14

EARLY YEARS: PART THE SECOND Tried Literate Programming fweb Spreading the word But it wasn’t RAW FORTRAN Some Folks X terminals and DVI Preview “Get It” Saves lots of paper Others only think they do Real work starts migrating o ff of UNIX The rest don’t want to know and onto PC’s 6 Thursday, August 7, 14

MIDDLE YEARS PC Implementations Commercial PC Releases “Free” PC Versions CTAN Technical Publishing Supports TeX ( LaTeX) 7 Thursday, August 7, 14

RECENT EVENTS TeX Live TeXShop and TeXWorks Obsolescence of the Physical Page Consumption Patterns Learning 8 Thursday, August 7, 14

RECENT LEARNING MODES Learn to Use: Learning about NEW “STUFF”: Online Courses and Manuals CTAN Announce ... Mailing Lists TUG Home Page StackExchange StackExchange The guy down the hall TUG Conferences 9 Thursday, August 7, 14

FUTURE? ? ? iTeX? Software as a Service? Tablets and e-Readers The Cloud ? ? ? 10 Thursday, August 7, 14