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/tekh / An extremely powerful {macro }-based text
formatter written by {Donald Knuth }, very popular in academia ,
especially in the computer -science community (it is good
enough to have displaced {Unix } {troff }, the other favoured
formatter , even at many {Unix } installations ).
The first version of TeX was written in the programming
language {SAIL }, to run on a {PDP -10 } under Stanford 's {WAITS }
operating system }.
Knuth began TeX because he had become annoyed at the declining
quality of the typesetting in volumes I -III of his monumental
Art of Computer Programming " (see {Knuth }, also {bible }). In
a manifestation of the typical hackish urge to solve the
problem at hand once and for all , he began to design his own
typesetting language . He thought he would finish it on his
sabbatical in 1978 ; he was wrong by only about 8 years . The
language was finally frozen around 1985 , but volume IV of "The
Art of Computer Programming " has yet to appear as of mid -1997 .
However , the third edition of volumes I and II have come
out ). The impact and influence of TeX 's design has been such
that nobody minds this very much . Many grand hackish projects
have started as a bit of {toolsmithing } on the way to
something else ; Knuth 's diversion was simply on a grander
scale than most .
Guy Steele } happened to be at Stanford during the summer of
1978 , when Knuth was developing his first version of TeX .
When he returned to {MIT } that fall , he rewrote TeX 's {I /O } to
run under {ITS }.
TeX has also been a noteworthy example of free , shared , but
high -quality software . Knuth offers monetary awards to people
who find and report a bug in it : for each bug the award is
doubled . (This has not made Knuth poor , however , as there
have been very few bugs and in any case a cheque proving that
the owner found a bug in TeX is rarely cashed ). Though
well -written , TeX is so large (and so full of cutting edge
technique ) that it is said to have unearthed at least one bug
in every {Pascal } system it has been compiled with .
TeX fans insist on the correct (guttural ) pronunciation , and
the correct spelling (all caps , squished together , with the E
depressed below the baseline ; the mixed -case "TeX " is
considered an acceptable {kluge } on {ASCII }-only devices ).
Fans like to proliferate names from the word "TeX " - such as
TeXnician (TeX user ), TeXhacker (TeX programmer ), TeXmaster
competent TeX programmer ), TeXhax , and TeXnique .
Several document processing systems are based on TeX , notably
LaTeX } Lamport TeX - incorporates document styles for books ,
letters , slides , etc ., {jadeTeX } uses TeX as a backend for
printing from {James ' DSSSL Engine }, and {Texinfo }, the {GNU }
document processing system . Numerous extensions to TeX exist ,
among them {BibTeX } for bibliographies (distributed with
LaTeX ), {PDFTeX } modifies TeX to produce {PDF } and {Omega }
extends TeX to use the {Unicode } character set .
For some reason , TeX uses its own variant of the {point }, the
TeX point }.
See also {Comprehensive TeX Archive Network }.
ftp ://labrea .stanford .edu /tex /)}.
E -mail : (TeX User 's group , Oregon , USA ).
2002 -03 -11 )TeX : /
tekh /,
n .
An extremely powerful macro -
based text formatter written by Donald E .
Knuth ,
very popular in the computer -
science community (
it is good enough to have displaced Unix troff ,
the other favored formatter ,
even at many Unix installations ).
TeX fans insist on the correct (
guttural )
pronunciation ,
and the correct spelling (
all caps ,
squished together ,
with the E depressed below the baseline ;
the mixed -
case ‘
TeX ’
is considered an acceptable kluge on ASCII -
only devices ).
Fans like to proliferate names from the word ‘
TeX ’ —
such as TeXnician (
TeX user ),
TeXhacker (
TeX programmer ),
TeXmaster (
competent TeX programmer ),
TeXhax ,
and TeXnique .
See also CrApTeX .
Knuth began TeX because he had become annoyed at the declining quality of the typesetting in volumes I --
III of his monumental Art of Computer Programming (
see Knuth ,
also bible ).
In a manifestation of the typical hackish urge to solve the problem at hand once and for all ,
he began to design his own typesetting language .
He thought he would finish it on his sabbatical in 1978 ;
he was wrong by only about 8 years .
The language was finally frozen around 1985 ,
but volume IV of The Art of Computer Programming is not expected to appear until 2007 .
The impact and influence of TeX '
s design has been such that nobody minds this very much .
Many grand hackish projects have started as a bit of toolsmithing on the way to something else ;
Knuth '
s diversion was simply on a grander scale than most .
TeX has also been a noteworthy example of free ,
shared ,
but high -
quality software .
Knuth offers a monetary award to anyone who found and reported bugs dating from before the 1989 code freeze ;
as the years wore on and the few remaining bugs were fixed (
and new ones even harder to find ),
the bribe went up .
Though well -
written ,
TeX is so large (
and so full of cutting edge technique )
that it is said to have unearthed at least one bug in every Pascal system it has been compiled with .
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