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The revolution will be typeset

10 Jan 2013

As the computing world shifts from desktops and laptops to tablet-style devices, one of the most widely used tools in physics – LaTeX – is struggling to follow. Software developer Duncan Steele explains how this typesetting program is now starting to catch up

The revolution will be typeset
The tablet revolution began on 27 January 2010, when Apple’s then chief executive, Steve

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Duncan Steele co-founded Valletta Ventures, a start-up that develops software for researchers (including the iPad LaTeX editor Texpad), after completing a PhD in theoretical physics at King's College London
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