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		Hexstream on Oct 30, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Knuth is no longer mailing out checks for $2.56 So in short you think someone should build a great GUI on top of TeX. Why not?

nailer on Oct 31, 2008 | [–]

Someone should have done that many years ago, when TeX had a chance of succeeding as a mainstream typesetting language, along with allowing people to use their not-bitmapped, TTF (and later OTF) fonts without conversion tools.

I think now it's a little too late.

alexkay on Oct 31, 2008 | [–]

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