Computers & Typesetting, Volume B: TeX
The Program (Computers and Typesetting, Vol B)
by Donald Knuth
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I read the entire book "TeX: The Program" by Donald Knuth, Computers and Typesetting, Volume B.
on “Which programming book you just couldn’t stop reading from start to end?” ↗Yes, the iPython notebooks are great for reproducible reports. Literate programming, as practiced by Knuth, is a little bit different. The program's output, graphs, tables, etc. isn't intermixed with the text as it is in a Jupyer notebook. A literate program is actually documentation and source mixed together in a web file. Two different programs (tangle and weave) can be run over this literate co
on “Stitch – A small Python library for writing reproducible reports in Markdown” ↗The TeX source is not in the form in which it is intended to be read. It's like you showing the current HTML and JavaScript source code of some article and complain that the message is hard to read. What you showed as the TeX source is at the same time a source representation for this book: Computers & Typesetting, Volume B: TeX: The Program (Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1986), ISBN 0
on “Was Knuth Really Framed?” ↗