Re: Big news - help wanted

Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.context
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 4/1/26 10:24, Mikael Sundqvist wrote:
> […]
> Backed by an undisclosed nine-figure war chest from a consortium of foundations
> and anonymous high-net-worth individuals who believe that beautiful, accessible
> mathematics should not be locked behind 1980s technology, we have built and now
> deployed a fully automated, AI-powered conversion engine that turns any \TEX\ or
> LaTeX document into clean, modern \CONTEXT\ with near-perfect fidelity. We've
> watched in quiet awe as the same AI models researchers casually prompt for help
> suddenly began producing \CONTEXT\ code that was cleaner, more semantic, and
> dramatically more accessible than the original LaTeX. Package conflicts? Gone.
> Ancient tikz hacks? Replaced with native \METAFUN. The results were so
> compelling
> that our secret backers immediately approved full-scale deployment.

Hi Mikael,

I see that this is related to Donald Knuth’s iTeX
(https://web.archive.org/web/20140828102256/http://river-valley.tv/media/conferences/tug-2010/Don-Knuth/).

> To ensure the highest quality, we need peer reviews. We therefore kindly ask the
> best ones we could come up with: you. Content is more important than formatting
> (that of course is already perfect). Please apply by replying to this email.

The first sentence from previous paragraph is s the more entertaining
part of the whole project.

Have fun,

Pablo
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