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   tom jennings (tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jul-2024 11:23:50 JST tom jennings

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   • Lea Verou

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   I lurved TeX.

   I wrote a punk zine, HOMOCORE, in plain TeX. On an OS/2 machine running desqview and some nifty extended memory manager, I forget. Priter connected via ARCnet! lol. Hanging punctuation in places! Dictionary density...

   printed on a 24-wire NEC printer, strips cut and glue-sticked onto the pasteup sheet for newsprint production.

   One other zine used TeX, THE PENUMBRA, out of NYC. It was a hilarious sendup of the self-serious THE SHADOW zine.

   https://www.sensitiveresearch.com/Archive/HOMOCORE/index.html

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     Lea Verou (leaverou@front-end.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jul-2024 11:23:52 JST Lea Verou

     Whenever I feel bad about yak shaving, I’m reminded of Donald Knuth.

     Apparently, he was writing his masterwork “The Art of Computer Programming” and decided to take a few weeks to write a better typesetter.

     Thus, TeX was born.

     10 years later he returned to continue the writing of the actual book…

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