What is the history of Treasure Troves and how are the pages authored?
Treasure Troves began life more than 12 years ago. The earliest incarnation was a set of documents written in an early version of Microsoft Word on a Macintosh Plus. When Andrew Trevorrow made OzTEX available for the Macintosh, the documents were converted to TEX, the powerful and widely used mark-up language for mathematical typesetting, resulting in a vast improvement in readability. While undertaking the Word to TEX conversion, the author began cross-referencing entries, anticipating that the entire document might someday be converted to hypertext. This hope/dream was realized beginning in 1995, when the internet explosion was in full swing and Nikos Drakos developed his excellent TEX to HTML converter, LATEX2HTML. After a fair bit of effort to make the original TEX document LATEX compatible, the author posted HTML versions of the encyclopedias to a personal web site at the California Institute of Technology as part of his web site Eric’s Treasure Troves of Science. From July 1996 t
