Impossibility
Finally, it is necessary to mention Mr Rosendahl’s evidence on Dr Wright’s White Paper LaTeX Files.
Dr Wright had given a confusing account of the method by which he had supposedly compiled the White Paper LaTeX Files at Wright8 [74-76] {E/23/22}. He suggested that his “Linux environment was integrated with Windows and supported Wine”. He went on to refer to MiKTeX being “configured on Linux to use LaTeX packages and compilers including … TeX Live: I used this as an alternative to MiKTeX on Linux”. He concluded by saying that “These tools offered functionality similar to what MiKTeX provided on Windows”. This was more technobabble, for the reasons set out below.
It was suggested during the cross-examination of Mr Rosendahl {Day17/26-27} that the Court should understand that to mean that:
Dr Wright used LaTeX with both Windows and Linux.
When using Windows, he used MiKTeX as the TeX distribution on Windows.
When using Linux, he used TeX Live as the TeX distribution as an alternative to MikTeX.
It is difficult to square that ex post facto rationalisation of Dr Wright’s evidence with what he actually said in his witness statement. The real explanation for Dr Wright’s evidence is that he did not know what he was talking about in Wright8, because he had not used LaTeX in the way that he was describing. In any event, Mr Rosendahl identified 6 characteristics of the White Paper LaTeX Files that demonstrated that they could not have been used to compile the Bitcoin White Paper.