TeX was developed by Donald Knuth, a very famous computer scientist, after he looked at the draft of his newest book from the publisher and saw how utterly horrible the symbols and math stuff looked. He also enlisted the help of many others, including Herman Zapf - one of this century's most famous typographers.
It's popular because it produces the best quality layout of pretty much any software. It takes some time to learn, but then, unlike Microsoft Word, you don't need to relearn it every version :)
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Date: 2005-11-16 12:08 am (UTC)TeX was developed by Donald Knuth, a very famous computer scientist, after he looked at the draft of his newest book from the publisher and saw how utterly horrible the symbols and math stuff looked. He also enlisted the help of many others, including Herman Zapf - one of this century's most famous typographers.
It's popular because it produces the best quality layout of pretty much any software. It takes some time to learn, but then, unlike Microsoft Word, you don't need to relearn it every version :)