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was working at SRI, where he needed to write TeX macros for his own use. He thought that with a little extra effort, he could make a general package usable by others. Having done so, he released versions of his LaTeX macros in 1984 and 1985. Peter Gordon, an editor at Addison-Wesley, convinced Lamport to write a LaTeX user's manual for publication. Lamport was initially skeptical that anyone would pay money for it, but it came out in 1986 and sold hundreds of thousands of copies. On 21 August 1989, at a

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