Vistas for TEX: liberate the typography! (Part I)
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This is a polemic in favour of liberating the core typesetting structures and algorithms around which TEX is built from the monolithic superstructure of the mini-dinosaur of a program called tex and its more or less modernised and approachable derivatives such as
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تاریخ انتشار 2008