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unusual facts about CTAN


CTAN

The German site was first at the University of Heidelberg, operated by Rainer; in 1999 it moved to the University of Mainz, also operated by Rainer; 2002 to the University of Hamburg, operated by Reinhard Zierke; finally in 2005 it moved to a commercial hosting company since the amount of traffic got too high to get sponsored by a university.


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Jim Hefferon

In 1999 Jim became one of the core maintainers of the TeX archive CTAN.

Orthoester

Another example is the bicyclic OBO protecting group (4-methyl-2,6,7-trioxa-bicyclo2.2.2octan-1-yl) which is formed by the action of (3-methyloxetan-3-yl)methanol on activated carboxylic acids in the presence of Lewis acids and was developed by Elias James Corey.


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