Trovi qualcosa dello stesso Lamport
http://research.microsoft.com/users/lamport/pubs/pubs.html#latex
In the early 80s… I was a TeX user, so I would need a set of macros. I thought that, with a little extra effort, I could make my macros usable by others. Don Knuth had begun issuing early releases of the current version of TeX, and I figured I could write what would become its standard macro package. That was the beginning of LaTeX. I was planning to write a user manual, but it never occurred to me that anyone would actually pay money for it. In 1983, Peter Gordon, an Addison-Wesley editor, and his colleagues visited me at SRI.
Da quello che scrive Lamport, ho seri dubbi che si possa parlare di un anno esatto in cui il Nostro comincia a scrivere LaTeX. Visto che Lamport ha preso parte allo sviluppo di TeX, può darsi che le prime “macro” risalgano addirittura a prima del 1982.
Un “bel” problema: nella cronologia anno per anno, una voce come quella ci stava proprio bene…
Uffa. 😕
Grazie mille,
L.