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Latest comment: 8 years ago4 comments3 people in discussion
Doesn't this sound a little biased? "The disappointing galley proofs gave him the final motivation to solve the problem at hand once and for all by designing his own typesetting system."--86.184.71.5 (talk) 08:44, 15 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
I'm not sure what that sat for so long. The galley proofs were not disappointing any more than fudge ripple is the best flavor of ice cream. Those are opinions. "Once and for all" is simply bombast. He didn't like the proofs, so he designed his own system. Everything else is noise. - SummerPhDv2.019:41, 10 April 2018 (UTC)Reply
Would benefit from a family tree
Latest comment: 6 years ago7 comments4 people in discussion
The article (and also the List of TeX extensions article) would be substantially enhanced by the presence of a family tree diagram, a bit like this one for Unix. Such a family tree would include major derivatives/extensions/etc of TeX, such as LaTeX, pdfTeX, XeTeX and LuaTeX, and help readers to visualise the ways in which those pieces of software relate to each other in terms of chronology and functionality.
Ah, no, I don't, sorry. Collating that would be part of the challenge, I suppose. If that does not appeal to you then by all means decline it - no hard feelings whatsoever - and if I (or anyone else) eventually collates the information, then I (they) could ping you at that point to see if you are still interested in converting it into an illustration. Thanks! Zazpot (talk) 02:13, 6 February 2019 (UTC)Reply
TeX, pdfTeX, XeTeX and LuaTeX are programs. LaTeX (and plain TeX) are formats; they can run on any of these programs. So not sure how you'd draw a family tree. Shreevatsa (talk) 02:35, 7 February 2019 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 2 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion
Why is the current version number have the same digits as pi? I searched for pi in the article using Ctrl+F and didn't find anything.
I think it would be good to include an explanation of why the current version is very similiar to pi's decimal expansion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ScientistBuilder (talk • contribs) 23:20, 16 November 2021 (UTC)Reply
I've updated to the most recent and broad and most compatible version TeX Live 2024, maybe the idea was to say that there are an "undefined" number of versions for TeX. That could be the case because there are. Although, it is important to have a version described there. BRLibertarian (talk) 16:59, 9 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
The file format infobox shows "application/x-tex", and I couldn't find the Media Type described in the box at the IANA media type list, as my understanding they are responsible for defining this types, discussed and agreed in forums. The Initial release info is redundant, already described in the software infobox.
File extension I do not think it is critical, even on the project website they say that "You can, of course, “just read it”, since it’s a plain text file; the problem is that the markup tags in the document may prove distracting. Most of the time, even TeX experts will typeset a (La)TeX file before attempting to read it. [...] Are you “put off” by all this? — remember that TeX is good at producing PDF: why not ask the person who sent the TeX file to send a PDF copy?"
Type format: sure, it is a text file, but can you read it? It's more like html, markup.
The LaTex article, software based in TeX, doesn't have this info box. It would be more suitable because it is just a typesetting software. BRLibertarian (talk) 17:31, 9 June 2024 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 2 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
"mathematical formulas" would be enough in my opinion. and formulae is no more correct than formulas, according to most dictionaries, people, and regular humans. 176.54.4.163 (talk) 14:39, 4 November 2023 (UTC)Reply
Date Hiccup
Latest comment: 1 year ago1 comment1 person in discussion
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the following chronologically impossible?
TeX82 introduced a new hyphenation algorithm, designed by Frank Liang in 1983...
Latest comment: 7 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Correct me if I'm wrong but TeXlive is a TeX distribution, and not the same as TeX. The infobox (and even the article) seem to mix things... For example, as the article says, "The current version of TeX is 3.141592653; it was last updated in 2021", but someone looking just at the infobox will think that "TeXlive 2024" is the latest TeX version... Mind Booster Noori (talk) 18:35, 12 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
You are correct. It makes sense to me that the stable release information in the infobox should refer to TeX itself, consistent with the initial release info, with a reference to the CTAN source (tex.web on that page has the version information). But I think the TeX Live release information would be valuable to many as well. It isn't clear to me how to have both the stable release info for TeX as well as the version of TeX Live using Template:infobox software. Erjwiki (talk) 20:00, 22 December 2025 (UTC)Reply
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