[pdftex] MS Word hell, TeX heaven?

[John Culleton]

On Thursday 13 March 2003 04:19 pm, Robin Fairbairns wrote:
> william adams writes:
> > One also has things like InDesign which directly take advantage of
> > TeX w/o acknowledgement :(
>
> really?  none of the publicity material i've seen has failed to
> acknowledge the use of knuth's algorithms.  not that i go out looking
> for it any more...
>
> > Also, can't help but wonder what Microsoft is doing w/ Leslie Lamport
> > working for them....
>
> theoretical computer science?  it's what he does, you know.  (rather
> well, in fact, afaict.)
>
> the only book on which both leslie and i were credited for
> contributions of macros, i got first mention, so he can't be _all_
> that good as a macro writer ;-)
>
> robin

I doubt not your prowess as a macro writer, or L. Lamport's. 

But think on this: had I been named, I would have been ahead of you.  
Alphabetic sort, you know.  But I am named nowhere in the literature, perhaps 
because I haven't done anything but complain :-(

John Culleton