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Originally Posted by drmathprog
I think LaTex was invented by Leslie Lamport. Donald Knuth invented Tex. They are, of course, intimately coupled.  |
Did I say anything otherwise? I think someone else brought up Knuth. I didn't.
Strictly speaking, LaTeX is an extension to TeX that consists of a set of macros that make it easier to use, though TeX still does the typesetting. "Coupled" is too weak of a relation. LaTeX is built on top of TeX, and many if not most of the algorithms directly related to typesetting are part of plain TeX. Whether or not the LaTeX macros would be involved if the TeX engine were modified to handle ePub source mark-up, I don't know, and doubt it matters much.