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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-whatTeX.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-whatTeX.html index 18536d7d135..45e6983fcd7 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-whatTeX.html +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-whatTeX.html @@ -7,7 +7,11 @@ says in the Preface to his book on TeX (see <a href="FAQ-books.html">books about TeX</a>) that it is -“<em>intended for the creation of beautiful books — and especially for books that contain a lot of mathematics</em>”. +“<em>intended for the creation of beautiful books —</em> +<em>and especially for books that contain a lot of mathematics</em>”. +(If TeX were <em>only</em> good for mathematical books, much of its +use nowadays would not happen: it’s actually a pretty good general +typesetting system.) <p/>Knuth is Emeritus Professor of the Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University in California, USA. Knuth developed the first version of TeX in 1978 to deal with revisions to his series |