>>>>> "Nicolas" == Nicolas Le Novere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Nicolas> Dear authors, The inaccuracy in the dating of TeX and LaTeX Nicolas> creation is really itching me. I first reporting the error in Nicolas> 2001 or 2002 I think, but nothing has been done. Hello Nicolas, You are right that such things should be corrected. Nicolas> Maybe there is an entry about the publication of the first Nicolas> book but LaTeX was created way before that. The book itself Nicolas> was decided by Addison-Wesley in 1983 Nicolas> (http://research.microsoft.com/users/lamport/pubs/pubs.html#latex) Nicolas> The first LaTeX manual was written in december 1983 and the Nicolas> version 2.06a was released on september 1984. It would probably be fair to mention the release date of LaTeX 2e (1994?). Nicolas> Regarding TeX, it is much worse of course. LyX manual says: Nicolas> "a typesetting language called TeX, created by Donald Knuth Nicolas> in 1984." Nicolas> I have not a clue how this date came on. Knuth first Nicolas> description of TeX was given in 1978 (later published in Nicolas> Bull. AMS, vol. 1 (March 1979), no. 2, pp. 337--372) But TeX78 is not really TeX as we know it, right? Isn't 1982 a more reasonable date? Nicolas> Please correct the dates. It does not do LyX any good to Nicolas> alienate (La)TeX community on such simple errors. It would be great if you could propose us a new wording of these paragraphs :) JMarc
