Dear authors, The inaccuracy in the dating of TeX and LaTeX creation is really itching me. I first reporting the error in 2001 or 2002 I think, but nothing has been done.
The text says: "LaTeX is a document preparation system designed by Leslie Lamport in 1985" with a footnote saying "The source for the info in this section is "A Guide to LaTeX2e," by Helmut Kopka and Patrick Daly, which has an entry in the bibliography of the User's Guide." Maybe there is an entry about the publication of the first book but LaTeX was created way before that. The book itself was decided by Addison-Wesley in 1983 (http://research.microsoft.com/users/lamport/pubs/pubs.html#latex) The first LaTeX manual was written in december 1983 and the version 2.06a was released on september 1984. Regarding TeX, it is much worse of course. LyX manual says: "a typesetting language called TeX, created by Donald Knuth in 1984." I have not a clue how this date came on. Knuth first description of TeX was given in 1978 (later published in Bull. AMS, vol. 1 (March 1979), no. 2, pp. 337--372) And of course, the book TeX and METAFONT: New Directions in Typesetting was published in 1979. Please correct the dates. It does not do LyX any good to alienate (La)TeX community on such simple errors. Besides that, LyX rocks :-) -- Nicolas LE NOVERE, Computational Neurobiology, EMBL-EBI, Wellcome-Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK Tel: +44(0)1223494521, Fax: +44(0)1223494468, Mob: +44(0)7833147074 http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~lenov, AIM:nlenovere, MSN:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
